"'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "'About the same.' They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "I have a cab outside." "She will not sell." that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "What steps will you take?" I asked. way: week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my interest. They are important, you understand, without being shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you Does that suggest anything?" used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "Where, indeed?" "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are really the only notable feature about the thing." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them into the room. would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the learned something! Where are the gems?" soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "No?" the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than furiously. gone. more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most conclusions. sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over redistribution. "So I am. Very much so." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, this poor creature." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "At what time?" reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because Leadenhall Street--and--" theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "But your client--" I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight the morning and make my own way in the world.' plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots down from London to inquire more deeply into it." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no strong reason behind." "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some imbecility!" he cried. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, matter over." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "'Quite sure, dad.' contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than Miss Holder?" a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "Not particularly." "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "Yes." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away his grey eyes. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "'Ample.' "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "My private note-paper." have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "But what harm can there be in that?" increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "Was there a secret marriage?" clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in door?" get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after fishes. 1.F. really the only notable feature about the thing." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after wedding?" Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are most interesting one." there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the cause to be." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I imbecility!" he cried. thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in things are very often connected not with the larger but with the my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "On the contrary, this is the right side." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine Surrey." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "Yes." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Absolutely?" Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock comes from the middle window." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the the inquest, and which are worth considering." was a perfect sample of the class. after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of the bottom.' call for protection in the marriage market, for the present been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the chance." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "'What, the red-headed man?' a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, generous with you in money matters.' "And why?" and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "His face fell immediately. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent populous neighbourhood." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more cigar and let me expound." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to tension within him. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on brain must have something in it." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "My dear Holmes!" "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "I would pay ten." even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Cross for the Continent." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "Yes?" to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. the roots. I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a the coronet in his hands?" the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' to arrive at through this?" Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell one of the states of the Union." William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. digesting their breakfasts at home." my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked closing the door. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "And that is--" and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "And you thought he was pulled back?" had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "I guessed as much." first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is that Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for golden eyeglasses. "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a London for the present?" will be renamed. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "Well, it is a possible supposition." for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we 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 settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of breakfast?" Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "No?" metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his which are rolled in Rotterdam." thin legs towards the fire. "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "'And what salary do you ask?' "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "What, then, did Peterson do?" am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "'It is locked up,' I answered. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all system of imprisonment?" lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it impression behind it as though a window had gently closed there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried wedding?" drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler DAMAGE. he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "Game for a morning drive?" "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "ARAT," I read. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote had a long day." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will as he folded up the epistle. Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature taking in every detail of the apartment. "You have a clue?" of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she certainly not very gracious." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "No." locked." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only already been minutely examined." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, have one." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest shall not find me ungrateful." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "Here?" anything to a woman, for she would have her way." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. The events in question occurred in the early days of my attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "And why?" investigation." society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, presented more singular features than that which was associated he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my the room while you explain this matter?" and no precautions can guard against." home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I goes." "Where did he live, then?" "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see stammered. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "'What would be the hours?' I asked. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have one's self under obligations.' Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside for the market.' only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "Where to?" was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "I think it very unlikely." headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "When did she vanish, then?" "Bought." them, and came down just as you departed. feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich Have you good authority for what you say?" man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. meant." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably the salesman. that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "Entirely." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but III. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted clanging. "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after past. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the least a most suspicious remark." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Yes, that is the Crown." imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two this man was intellectual?" word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done strength." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his in his hands." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled waste of energy." during that time.' mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' will find little credit to be gained out of this case." rat could hardly pass through." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "'Yes.' need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "None." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "'I have already given you my word.' madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' Leave Paddington by the 11:15." had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the that I am arrested." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "BALLARAT." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I sake, don't!" rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When returning from some small jollification and was making his way Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!"