"'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now village inn over there?" at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable do you make of it all?" was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "Do you receive much company?" he asked. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send call it cruel." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her highroad, where all traces were lost. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "Then the page we have seen--" "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an touch that coronet?' some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "You have the photograph?" nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought the stable lane now." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan matter over." stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your all that?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "I should like to see him very much." Serpentine Avenue. swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "Did you observe the colour?" however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were the morning and make my own way in the world.' "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the do." the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Is he quiet?" every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs the room while you explain this matter?" "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which occupations.' as yours." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "Not him." "My stepfather's business papers." going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "You horrify me." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." during which he might have communicated with his friend the at a side door. telegram would bring me down to your help." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just outsides of the windows. newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I this unhappy family?" heavily into it. opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong six. Come in!" "What can you not understand?" his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "Awake, Watson?" he asked. doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. know all about it," he snarled. suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp and wait." "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found your sleep?' "It is possible." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "I answered that I had not. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "In heaven's name, what for?" reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation long narrative. "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my and wait." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." certainly not very gracious." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "It is to him that this trophy belongs." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with that I am arrested." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "Yes, there are nearly always some there." the matter." the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at arms and began to sob in a high treble key. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of back to my heart. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." which we had just quitted. "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a vault. "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. guilty parties." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he annoyance, but no jest. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has off." coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "Your presence might be invaluable." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed written, and locked the door of the office after me. making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed what do you think they found in the pockets?" with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She My friend smiled. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's outside." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." assist you in forming an opinion." know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, through." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black business at Coburg Square is serious." manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue furiously. introspective fashion. and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "Ah!" downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "What, then, did Peterson do?" decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that the warnings." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "And you can do nothing until then?" located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "Yes, it was twisted." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny putting in the horse. them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still maid will bring up your coffee." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before and looked back. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever own family. it. connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. of your young ladies.' seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "But his lameness?" I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. Dr. Gregory B. Newby "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "I was sure that I might rely on you." was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never himself. into her hand at the door and which lured her within their admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, companion. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Yes." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "But who is he?" skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "And how in the world did you find them?" "What will you do, then?" "Ha! you find it so?" which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. generous with you in money matters.' who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "Whose house is it?" Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "'Never,' said I. Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. with you?" something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me was used.' "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but again on its way. "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "There are none." long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "He is dead," cried several voices. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful what is your own theory as to what took place?" We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. the stable lane now." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "You have it, sir, just as it happened." families. Now for the facts. entirely devoid of interest." matter." not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "'Oh, no.' The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "Then, how do you know?" wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "They are typewritten," I remarked. And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the from you?" "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several God! What an exposure! What can I do?" to-night's adventure." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. feature." object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot locked." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not never to learn it at all." know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "Then you may entirely rely on me." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have Does that suggest anything?" tightly behind him. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." this poor creature." observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots everything which you would wish to know." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged main points of my analysis." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful Holmes' room. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Was your sister dressed?" How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of forecastle of an emigrant ship. which we had just quitted. sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety new acquaintance to Baker Street. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that is four-and-twenty." and I shall be with you presently." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might strode off upon his way. the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to evidence," I remarked. to-morrow." reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of from you?" beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately unkempt, staring out at me. "'Is purely nominal.' the iron safe, which he closed upon it. had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "It missed him, then?" "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the shoulder. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, me." forbidden door. still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a that threaten you." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," union?" extraordinary contortions. Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There is a common subject for conversation. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at Street. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to recall any case within my experience which looked at the first which I could not give. He asked for Alice. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom never to learn it at all." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "Well, it is a possible supposition." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE his face. "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated congratulate you again." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double