and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "But how?" "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "You horrify me!" to-night's adventure." call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six to surprise her." in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his works. scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips said I. wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "'Which dealer's?' bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if Have you good authority for what you say?" observed. visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a been anything against him. He had for years been known as a directly by questioning you." jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "A call for help, you thought?" "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A Sutherland?" his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as one else, I think." away to you." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet noise which awoke you from your sleep?" Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "Which are?" wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." client, rising. "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "Never to return." "I assure you that I am in your hands." "Well, it is a possible supposition." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "Yes, the wine-cellar." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you and your relations to her." "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime simple cases which are so extremely difficult." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "What is it, then--a fire?" forecastle of an emigrant ship. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" late." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "But you would not advise me to refuse?" ways of our fellow-men." into the room. read over the extraordinary announcement. facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "In answer to an advertisement." pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at I was concerned in it." gentleman's clothes. thought that she would have been so carried away." charge against him will break down." clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "In which, sir?" nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a generous with you in money matters.' know that the truth is known." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never present." face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in extraordinary contortions. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until lamp. "And how?" grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a meant it for the best. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot had formerly been in part my own. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "Pray be precise as to details," said he. was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' became a certainty. if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first British peeress.'" "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "Where to?" one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps there when the Rucastles went away." pictures, libraries, or plate. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I will not take me long to tell. of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their McCarthy's innocence. to-night's adventure." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "The knees of his trousers." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass the Red-headed League." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" ventilator." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "Yes." against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "It came here." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a now. It seems that there had been some informality about their than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." some terrible trap for her." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "'Most admirably.' one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never laugh and put his lips to my ear. point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "And from a noble client?" have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out it right.' friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "Certainly, madam." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my prisoner's face. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "But how?" surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "'Quite sure, dad.' clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: help us in this matter." the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into your bag." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, disturbance in my wife." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me writers could invent nothing more crude." Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "And how have you succeeded?" "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your simple cases which are so extremely difficult." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I acted in my house last night?" tell them apart.' happened." have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a the south-west, I see." brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us at once, for I have only half an hour." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and giving me time to thank him. practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the papers." one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "My dear Holmes!" that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a said Mr. Holder. bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "Yes, all." to arrive at through this?" outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond have not had my rubber." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and side. "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. me. You must get home instantly and act." "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "And on what day did he meet his death?" one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "'There is a drive, then?' first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled have an American origin." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which what is your own theory as to what took place?" and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in affection." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just conduct the inquiry." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own This is what he says: is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "Certainly." exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Pray let us have it, for all that." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept Project Gutenberg-tm works. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "Yesterday." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons disturbance in my wife." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing the Assizes." them?" "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" woven round him. your only hope of safety." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was heavy and sharp instrument." which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could the station." "They are typewritten," I remarked. have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "You forget that I know nothing about it." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned to some other building. it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, one or two very singular points about this room. For example, old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent definite end. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, better in every way that they should make their position a little "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I warn you that they are very incomplete." journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of excitement. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in the coronet in his hands?" observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "You have but to name it." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself works. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we and wait." I am not easy in my mind about them." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a certainly do as you advise." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this upon the shelf for the interim." beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you me. You must get home instantly and act." Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves will he say when he returns?" "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is go from here to the Strand." before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in answered with a sidelong glance. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense how narrow had been my escape. the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. lost his Christmas dinner." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade hair?' it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed to surprise her." "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Quite so." floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "Where, indeed?" occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could own family. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" despaired of." succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. the night.' during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "I fear not." house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, have one." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all my secret was safe in his possession. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "What, then?" hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated empty. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Really! You surprise me." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "'And the work?' fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks as he folded up the epistle. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it crackling voice. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "How often?" job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight she slowly sank and died without having recovered her window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my that threaten you." right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be emerged. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' papers." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! disturbance in my wife."