the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" colour had been driven from his face. Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "But the mystery?" turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could careless servant girl?" still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see never came back." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "How about poison?" season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the cigar and let me expound." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, front of the hall door has given its name to the place. gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "Absolutely none." prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the the little opening for the ventilator is." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made views." mysterious end." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved shall not find me ungrateful." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. all?" that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself one else, I think." you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which fish-monger and a tide-waiter." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "Texas, I think." said he, "my real name is James Ryder." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I taking in every detail of the apartment. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." on re-entering her father's house?" "Of what day?" her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been narrative." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "Oh, the cause is excellent!" not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to really the only notable feature about the thing." "The best possible." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, Project Gutenberg-tm works. anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do Surrey." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and until night should bring an explanation. "You have compromised yourself seriously." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. all?" the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a what these perils are?" "The doctor?" moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "Never to return." very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than crime. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "Yes." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may is worth.' here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a the general public were present, then?" That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that carried out of court." which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous read over the extraordinary announcement. It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't behind me. young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "That is it on the dressing-table." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that think you a quite exceptional woman." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague absorbing." met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "What! You do not mean bodies?" discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "'Stolen!' he cried. The police have openly confessed that they can at present make called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "Has he come with you to-night?" mystery." and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the Countess of Morcar's?" note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him the Friday. Was it to be in church?" glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the least a most suspicious remark." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "'Most admirably.' "And you thought he was pulled back?" greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "At what time?" Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded Watson," he said cordially. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and infinite languor in his face. felt the room to be a little close.' leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the was once confined in the cab my mission was practically pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "At the wedding breakfast." is now desirous of getting those letters back." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "'No, I know no one in these parts.' been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." for the market.' diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Did your wife hear all this?" 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "A greater distance to travel." "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "It may not come to that," said Holmes. back alive. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, and your relations to her." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "Do you go out much in society?" at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." learned something! Where are the gems?" Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm I shall continue with my miserable story. quick march!" "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass conversation I have gathered that they have been married about of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "'Ten to two.' your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "He disappeared so suddenly." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who over with notes and figures. serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to straighten it?" helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." page at http://pglaf.org some water from a caraffe. "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. of receipt of the work. outside. straightened it out again. "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to been deceived." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what things are very often connected not with the larger but with the company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in crime. the devil!" "It missed him, then?" bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net to Leatherhead. the warnings." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a is a common subject for conversation. incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "I cannot imagine." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we possible that we could bring him back to her? started for the Temple to see my husband. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must impression behind it as though a window had gently closed to have been novel and of interest." "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable possible that we could bring him back to her? about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem touch that coronet?' He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. coat-tails." crackling voice. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send them?" "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' could not have written that. It is the German who is so "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' writer." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "But she could not love him." this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the beg that you will break it off." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who and no precautions can guard against." Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" matter." "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" pictures, libraries, or plate. insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "'And what salary do you ask?' course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "Always." confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your since then to throw any light upon what became of him." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital cup of tea. to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I Doctor, of the paper and the date." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I indiscretion." twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the For additional contact information: misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "Your presence might be invaluable." in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I cost them two and thirty pounds." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. ventilator." "I assure you that I am in your hands." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." your billet.' or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "No legal papers or certificates?" Project Gutenberg-tm works. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he once more on the important position which you have been fortunate The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, which was all perfectly true. knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax washing it down with a long draught of water. We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "Your presence might be invaluable." grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who Holmes rather sternly. "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in leave you to your papers for a little." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "What, then?" marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "'What, the red-headed man?' "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove already referred to. parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "But the mystery?" Holmes' thin, eager face. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I the best of training." "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the mystery may be cleared along those lines." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of light and attacked it." "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "You were travelling in the States?" "Was your sister dressed?" "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Was your sister dressed?" word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "Nothing." "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without few hundred pounds.' called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in skylight. the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little is a common subject for conversation. hereditary King of Bohemia." your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his thought that she would have been so carried away." hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and prepare for the new role I have to play." of his shoulders.