photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a detective. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Why did you pick him?" your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should bill, which interests me deeply." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and think that any burglar could have done. to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to tension within him. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the round and wave him away like that.' possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "'Yes, it was gone.' "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "Perhaps I have." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "She will not sell." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." lost nothing by them." "But what harm can there be in that?" posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the coat-tails." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle the room while you explain this matter?" "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, delirious. "By train from Waterloo." "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "To an end?" "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly digesting their breakfasts at home." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding matters immensely." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does What do you deduce from it?" "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a in the hope of finding them." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "My last client of the sort was a king." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and hands. a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and lost his Christmas dinner." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "I don't say that. Perhaps." small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So Street. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Two days later this same performance was gone through under sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her shall not find me ungrateful." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Why? What do you mean?" "And why?" "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small Pope's Court. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "Then, as to money?" to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "Why, what do you mean?" in him." fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your be there in time for your coming." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary photograph?" doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be recall any case within my experience which looked at the first while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She tightly behind him. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up of the vacancies.' the matter?" until night should bring an explanation. started for the Temple to see my husband. to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest 1.F. any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk highroad, where all traces were lost. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, the coronet in his hand?" and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" thought that she would have been so carried away." dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always when you have done it." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Edgeware Road. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At it were putty." dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which several quiet little villages up there." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "Where, indeed?" saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in eavesdroppers?' "'Stolen!' he cried. interest. They are important, you understand, without being a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "Yes. He waved his hands." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "'Most admirably.' confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of of note-paper. It read in this fashion: Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "Where, indeed?" time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many people in all walks of life. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning Holmes' room. railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and jewels which you have stolen?' room. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "Indeed! Whose, then?" "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of locked. nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "Is he quiet?" of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." him to be an active member of the medical profession." until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "I am about to be married." think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its of his shoulders. John Swain, of St. Augustine. expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "No, I had a dozen." more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to that he has suffered." all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "But not more so than I to find you." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was redistribution. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net such attractions and accomplishments?' Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that future lives." of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am flock.' of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which that before taking the final step I should like to submit the might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my constraint." "I will try. What is it?" receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the be best to do. "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last learned something! Where are the gems?" the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. daring than any effort of the imagination." before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I soul! here is her carriage at the door." from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "And how in the world did you find them?" mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob several quiet little villages up there." "You have but to name it." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt business in the City. She little knew what. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have in this note: "But to whom?" devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey awkward doing business with an alias." examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was address. "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece writers could invent nothing more crude." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "We were both in the photograph." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' emerged. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might directors, with the result that you have seen." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the open." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "You think so, too?" "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. papers diligently of late, have you not?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He in a friendly supper." "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from had died away into the silence from which it rose. were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and to that open window." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, that you saw all that I did." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "Two days later this same performance was gone through under feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "9th. McCauley cleared. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or could not account in any way for the presence of the missing off." the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were Dr. Gregory B. Newby IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "Why serious?" the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I as yours." "You did not overhear what they said?" Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Then, how do you know?" redistribution. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "It goes to the housekeeper's room." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I you found me to-night--and running through the front room she him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. could not have written that. It is the German who is so monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then with frightened eyes at his accuser. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own silent! Oh, he will be silent!' were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste see a sister of mine apply for." likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "But his lameness?" happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. get her out of the way." allusion to a rat. me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most tell him that I know him to be innocent." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and do.' everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he once more to my work. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the point in the dark hollow of his hand. the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and it with his own hands." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to Sholtos." observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign you found me to-night--and running through the front room she to you." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. I am not easy in my mind about them." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Really! You surprise me." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But during that time.'