"He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP a little more before I quite committed myself. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. handed it to him. lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "Pray be precise as to details," said he. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. lost nothing by them." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and suggested at once that there must be a communication between the vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" and a shock of very red hair. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are London for the present?" James Windibank. Voilà tout!" young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. off." the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" strange features which were associated with the two crimes which discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, investigation." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" absorbing." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "Pray do so." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "I have seen the police." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "To the police?" "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "To the police?" the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled The telegram which we eventually received came late one night an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "Here?" waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he have got?" copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell room had already been engaged for us. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "Thank you. Pray proceed." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "Why did you beat the pavement?" "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." views." "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "Will you go?" villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "'What then?' I asked. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and I was concerned in it." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "I am in hopes that she does." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is more solid." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so them?" "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at of." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, all-comprehensive glances. yourselves in at night?" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An father's young wife. "Not in a good cause." desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the province." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, ordinary clothes on?" foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag for securing the situation." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that cigars in their mouths. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you habit of advancing money.' thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Not him." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can chemical work which was so dear to him. "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't will not take me long to tell. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free notes," he said. of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "The doctor?" often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "It is possible." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "No, I am descending." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must money should be paid at once.' lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon status with the IRS. "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "You did not overhear what they said?" the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was putting in the horse. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "You were travelling in the States?" state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "'What, the red-headed man?' me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must to that open window." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "There are none." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "A confidential servant?" "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's a room. "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "But his left-handedness." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "Then I shall certainly come." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found politicians who had been sent down from the North. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in back to my heart. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were use an arc-and-compass breastpin." bird of prey. very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was with the outside air!" settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" is," said he presently: and it need not interfere very much with one's other he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Why serious?" "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "Proceed, then." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I him, that man would not have given me such complete information "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "Never." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had again, where I was soon asleep. As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after here and I will read it to you: foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "Yes." that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is peculiar to him. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "I should like to see him very much." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official His smile broadened. imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after suggested at once that there must be a communication between the stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark most interesting one." and wait." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted to take care of herself." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence to go into your room and bar your shutters?" the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon points in connection with it which never have been, and probably of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to arrangements." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so who was a member of your goose club." I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such done what I asked you, Jones?" his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon the window, rose as we entered. "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "What! You do not mean bodies?" believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took The telegram which we eventually received came late one night seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three is entirely a question of barometric pressure." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "'Why that?' I asks. without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great for and were ordered to this address. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the envelope. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered both be extremely obliged.' thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "By no means." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by his forehead." this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I present." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could what I may call a really hard day's work." coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was subject to the trademark license, especially commercial were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men such person." he died? the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "It is very kind of you." the driver. whereabouts. his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to may have an influence upon European history." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you him to go away.' "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. matters immensely." Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you this Miss Turner." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring in the hope of finding them." "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "Proceed, then." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "That is also quite modern," said the lady. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "I see many objections to any such theory." of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now I was concerned in it." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "I shall most certainly do so." the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" populous neighbourhood." "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Oh, fresh and glossy." October 9, 1890. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "There are none." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the outside." considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and into the room. no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at charged with?" used to be." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Gutenberg-tm License. India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this prisoner's face. her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to sneer upon his pale face. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still copied or distributed: "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting events than those which have happened in my own family." pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "I have come for advice." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "No, distinctly professional." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "'Is 4 pounds a week.' reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much shadow pass over his face as I spoke. daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing