"Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "What! a murderous attack?" away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "Yes, it would be as well." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "It is his hat." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a sofa. This way, please!" "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our present." "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "And you don't know his address?" "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "And what did you see?" delighted to hear it," he said. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried gbnewby@pglaf.org said Mr. Holder. the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men go back?" faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "And why?" a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "I never have." stepfather?" Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "No, finished." derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "And it is--" which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "To the police?" and files of the old papers, following the future career of every the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in one else, I think." reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from to arrive at through this?" no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her giving me time to thank him. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "We must have a cab." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been the driver. my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "What shall I do?" confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as there were so many in the whole country as were brought together They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, least a fellow-countryman. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to were new raised from a basin. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The the night.' which are rolled in Rotterdam." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "But you can know nothing of this?" were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "'It is locked up,' I answered. "How can you tell that?" will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. felt?" done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Then, as to money?" known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "I was sure that I might rely on you." "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that forehead. there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "No, I think that I'll take it." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "And how?" of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De brain must have something in it." "It is a murder, then?" swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every as he folded up the epistle. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love waste of energy." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert families. Now for the facts. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of make me his representative both with the servants and with the second." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Get out!" said he. first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Why serious?" several quiet little villages up there." inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" that the gas is not laid on in his house?" Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "'Where could I find him?' upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss once more for Briony Lodge. gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman tell me that you intended to go into harness." this Miss Turner." vault. "And now?" I asked. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I gone. writers could invent nothing more crude." in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual your equipment. emerged. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not back alive. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis and I shall be with you presently." "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." outsides of the windows. strength in the others." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of extraordinary contortions. their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" floor. writing, and yet I know it well." nonsense.' all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Then, as to money?" I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." made his money." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. to-night's adventure." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "Witness: I must still refuse. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could believe that I should never have any practice at all. misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "You have but to name it." of a light. gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know business matters.' that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in that I can to serve you." "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "'Very good.' country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "That is possible." "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, the coronet in his hand?" have I gained?" "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "9th. McCauley cleared. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "But his left-handedness." urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I for its centre. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "It is possible." walking." bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Can I be of assistance?" "I promise," said Holmes. "Then the page we have seen--" "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "Nor running a chance of arrest?" surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "'Yes, sir.' "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other in him." prisoner's face. police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, him and tried to hold him back. "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "And Miss Sutherland?" to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would you for a few hours?" naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "But of what society?" are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has fasten all the windows?" the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we the stones. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a and capable of preserving a secret.' the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't so far?" you." better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "'It is locked up,' I answered. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is to have been novel and of interest." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, my former friend and companion. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering residence of the great financier. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "I should like to see him very much." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the intrusion of other matters." I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "Why? What do you mean?" that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "'Is 4 pounds a week.' ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit straightened it out again. that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" interests were the same as his." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round "Very much so." the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He said he. glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the you in your example." naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he your equipment. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Not in a good cause." "And why?" Eyford." public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." Sholtos." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "He disappeared so suddenly." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid fashion which was peculiar to him. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the eavesdroppers?' sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "I assure you that I am in your hands." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned what I may call a really hard day's work." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this searched, without anything being found which could incriminate dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." quite distinctive." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady goes." his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "Then I am your man." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "By all means." "She told me to ask you." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step quite distinctive." his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the come either from the window or the door. My attention was all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. are, I think, all that we need." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. towards the blaze. relief. "Yes." most interesting one." "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with had picked up in the wood. one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded situation." himself to hunt down. cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "Where, then?" is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of