"In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." upon the shelf for the interim." this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. infinite languor in his face. like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "Perhaps I have." "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion the morning and make my own way in the world.' Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "'Certainly,' I answered. "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of of the one which your family is now devouring." Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "It may not come to that," said Holmes. Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Yes, at the mines." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove will he say when he returns?" The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on London for the present?" in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while the stones. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing tapping his fingers upon the table. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I go--none." straightened it out again. the iron safe, which he closed upon it. weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "You are hungry," I remarked. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of was a loud and authoritative tap. exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think chill to my heart. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute experiences." the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" both be extremely obliged.' snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "I know where it is." a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "To an end?" hour?' overpowering excitement and concern. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless security.' of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that business came to an end." "'Yes, sir.' to-night?" I asked. "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "How often?" this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "I have seen the police." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "But how did you gain them?" done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich strength of mind to control. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about crime." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." his face which made him a very different person to the round, than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last country, and eventually married, without anyone having a call you and give you the chance." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some were unconscious?" "Upon what point?" the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, weighed down with some great anxiety. bird of prey. backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. think you a quite exceptional woman." came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to hardly wander." "She showed me, as I told you she would." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my and glanced through. God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "No, thank goodness, she did not." labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "He said that you could solve anything." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her at once, for I have only half an hour." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "I beg pardon." "You horrify me." room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Ten will be early enough." outside." other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is is acting for the best. "Imitated." makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when better in every way that they should make their position a little "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a point in the dark hollow of his hand. convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "Precisely." cigars in their mouths. building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Come in!" said Holmes. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. come either from the window or the door. My attention was tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite problems help me to do so." acted in my house last night?" handed it to him. "'Never,' said I. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this fuss that is made over them." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "How about poison?" tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. in the dead of the night?' "And your mother is alive?" Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I until night should bring an explanation. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's weapon." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed will find little credit to be gained out of this case." indeed which he could not unravel. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" His smile broadened. "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, it. Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside was not a bird to be seen there. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have page at http://pglaf.org Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was The police have openly confessed that they can at present make leaning back in his chair. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it woven round him. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Here?" "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent at once, for I have only half an hour." her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "Where, then, is my wife?" "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at the side-table." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "Come in!" said Holmes. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time distinguish the words: lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of there!' you." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and row." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your country, and eventually married, without anyone having a question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Will you bet, then?" swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said married her." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, From what you have told me I think that it is possible that case before our client came into the room." observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen the iron safe, which he closed upon it. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord stood on the top of it. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "Bought." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I skylight. have had none more fantastic than this." such person." conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. certainly not very gracious." have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "Pray do so." *** START: FULL LICENSE *** favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as them?" the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was trying to your nerves." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a III. walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "Entirely." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of strange features which were associated with the two crimes which in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "'Entirely.' said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "'Never.' the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "No good news?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's upon the white wrist. "You will not go there first?" from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "But his left-handedness." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, DAMAGE. Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "It came here." It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "Well?" door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has the general public were present, then?" LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the you." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "No." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, in my life." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this lips." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "How did you trace it, then?" not use it unless it is absolutely needed." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I nothing with him." silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough pity, because in other respects you would really have done very the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "I warn you that they are very incomplete." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Have you it here?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check opened the door, and slipped through. cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare Pool. could not have written that. It is the German who is so every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "To ruin me." unprofitable." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were habit of advancing money.' passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "Not in the least." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as fait accompli?" hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but the little opening for the ventilator is." it right.' brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, green of the new foliage. sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and in. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you something of him before." however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "But what will you do?" and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "Then I can wait in the next room." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "I am armed." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been