Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it stood on the top of it. "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and him and tried to hold him back. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "You think that he is dead?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right whether it answered to the description of any of their "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "He said too much." "You think so, too?" that you saw all that I did." and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his rat could hardly pass through." Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." least a fellow-countryman. "Why did you beat the pavement?" was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. later, upon the night of May 2nd." mysterious business." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," it. it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once future lives." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "There is the writing." through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the your room." "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George my former friend and companion. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring thought that she would have been so carried away." fled together." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of death." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go second." "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and during which he might have communicated with his friend the the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the ceremony." "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "It's nothing of the kind." which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" straightened it out again. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite the coronet in his hand?" to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "We were both in the photograph." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "I don't believe it." "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the Holmes." the morning and make my own way in the world.' it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a there!' With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a very peculiar words of the dying woman?" The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, guilty parties." better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is and put his glass in his pocket. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, Mary, has deserted me." Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can never will be, entirely cleared up. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never go--none." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at sake, don't!" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised his knees, staring into the fire. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been it? Did I buy the geese off you?" held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is shaken than I had ever seen him. time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the absorbing." from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from said I. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the people don't know." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was nonsense.' up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a anything to a woman, for she would have her way." notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a to arrive at through this?" At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "I have come for advice." in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point the inner apartment." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "And how did you find out?" William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It thin legs towards the fire. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house tassel actually lying upon the pillow. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So had died away into the silence from which it rose. table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never for the market.' maid will bring up your coffee." his eyes and forehead. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "You are hungry," I remarked. directly by questioning you." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "Yes, all." "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. weighed down with some great anxiety. about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "Then you may be so with me." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a think that he is innocent?" neither fascinating nor artistic." of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was ready to-morrow?' mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy never will be, entirely cleared up. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client was feeling which was the fattest.' "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence train.' no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must maid will bring up your coffee." matter." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "Pray tell us what has happened to you." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while is a common subject for conversation. knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so sake, don't!" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "The best possible." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had tied." our word." "I say that I have solved it." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it been." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "But your client--" "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' been shamefully used." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, waste of energy." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the companion. patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary assist you in forming an opinion." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my outsides of the windows. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his sneer upon his pale face. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet matter over." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "That is not always so easy." "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his both be extremely obliged.' "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "And what then?" squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "I shall be delighted." him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to certainly do as you advise." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking Holmes." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and there!' deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "I beg pardon." mystery may be cleared along those lines." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you business came to an end." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, call the police, let the police find what they can.' "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the Street. centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly manager. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "And I to find an enemy." depend upon your compliance." "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "No bad?" vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which you." against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a legal crime." "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent spare." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Get out!" said he. comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well way: what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of The summons was a brief and urgent one. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So me have 200 pounds?' became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey since then to throw any light upon what became of him." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her held up the lantern and gazed about him. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my what these perils are?" yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any "That also I could fathom." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third http://www.gutenberg.net "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his what I may call a really hard day's work." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, and that he would see to anything that turned up. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her new duties?' town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, Lestrade of Scotland Yard." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "But you can know nothing of this?" would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little Miss Holder?" "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His yards of it?' "A call for help, you thought?" "No." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." the stable lane now." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "I shall most certainly do so." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check highroad, where all traces were lost. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and passage and a tap at the door. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "And when will you call?" "How are you getting on?" turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing thin legs towards the fire. across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "Yes, it would be as well." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and whatever might befall. photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "One of the highest in England." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. hardly wander." but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "'Certainly not. But why?' keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "So I am. Very much so." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, cigars in their mouths. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, it." my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he client, rising. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a the coronet at all injured?" fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "But of what society?" accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in