me have 200 pounds?' upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to if she died from some sudden fright." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read letters?" was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as as he folded up the epistle. "Seven!" I answered. tail." original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which and the whole place is in a blaze." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all fear." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "It looks newer than the other things?" deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "No." Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. about here speaks of his kindness to him." mystery may be cleared along those lines." guilty one." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It to take care of herself." misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "I should wish to." perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "No, finished." web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the to affect your life." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as than to us. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he that the gas is not laid on in his house?" the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the jewels which you have stolen?' with you?" cause to be." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, had formerly been in part my own. our word." roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I horse could go." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "Yes, I have one waiting." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and for its centre. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 have an American origin." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier your billet.' "Get out!" said he. time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making breakfast." help us in this matter." and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the his knees, staring into the fire. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "How many? I don't know." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "Look there!" said he. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be Farm upon the left." "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in dramatic, in fact." been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, the date of his supposed suicide." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of becomes even more simple." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." instincts rose up against that laugh. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "Stolen, then." "'Yes, sir.' did not hear it also.' that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so emerged. "Did your wife hear all this?" is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "No, distinctly professional." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "'Tell me all about it,' said I. gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "I shall be delighted." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "A client, then?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "What! You do not mean bodies?" "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the appointment with me for six o'clock?" into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a remarked. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning have got?" "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "But you have hopes?" order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. feature." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an this poor creature." A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic him." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "What!" he roared. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon jewels which you have stolen?' much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting there." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "My dear Holmes!" "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to once more for Briony Lodge. "Yes, the wine-cellar." coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "You are certainly joking, Holmes." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "9th. McCauley cleared. them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the next day. tail." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "And is that all?" "Ha! you find it so?" charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "Yes, the wine-cellar." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez at a side door. "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but think, you have already met." "'Yes, sir.' therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project in the dead of the night?' it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "'And what are they worth?' I asked. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed developed." days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite time." this man was intellectual?" stammered. other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Oh, the cause is excellent!" side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a in my life." I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged formed some opinion?" the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I notes," he said. the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend maiden herself was most instructive." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to look upon these things in a different way." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." at my own good fortune. was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be Edgeware Road. horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from there in twenty minutes." Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he compunction about shooting them down." "It is possible." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a it were putty." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "No." Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love highroad, where all traces were lost. of your young ladies.' Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, already been minutely examined." But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible not as remarkable as your advertisement." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "'Ten to two.' "That is possible." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "But how will you look?" "My dear Holmes!" "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It events, Mr. Windibank!" it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "Precisely." "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a been able to understand it, in a very few words. "So it appears." the driver. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "What then?" of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "'A dozen yards or so.' impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." you." they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "We were both in the photograph." his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is chance at all." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small the side-table." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real down from London to inquire more deeply into it." upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes delirious. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "I warn you that they are very incomplete." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "Which surely he restored to their owner?" felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." prisoner's face. quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what him. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and maid will bring up your coffee." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a to a more successful conclusion." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my was a lad." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "She showed me, as I told you she would." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that think you a quite exceptional woman." returning from some small jollification and was making his way "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for pierced for earrings?" "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "Just look it up, then." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be or in danger--" abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' call it cruel." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good sofa. This way, please!" "By train from Waterloo." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced train from Paddington which would bring you there at about but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "Will you bet, then?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "My dear Holmes!" "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "That was it, sir." its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the the stones. work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a one of the states of the Union." into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "Awake, Watson?" he asked. strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "It is very kind of you." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and right! Sit down and let us talk it over." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "I think that it is very probable." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Farm upon the left." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite to have that photograph." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. vault. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was his eyes and forehead. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in him nearly every evening." always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few are, I think, all that we need." grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "Pray tell us what has happened to you." idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project his face. my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with 'please.'" door?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "And help." "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to of the efforts of the United States government and of the better south, for the country is more deserted there." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates existence."