appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "No, finished." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "'I shall certainly be there.' had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and that before taking the final step I should like to submit the as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Not I." gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "My dear Holmes!" "'I am sure that I do not know.' assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed little adventures." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about bore every mark of being an average commonplace British knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily there was no need for father to know." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "Yes." valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, indeed which he could not unravel. "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the gone. King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. Mrs. Toller serenely. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "Pray continue your narrative." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and unprofitable." should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth down. It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, be best to do. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses have been better. It is all right." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but down in his armchair and closing his eyes. With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the particular state visit http://pglaf.org "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "You think that he is dead?" me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales and laid it on the table. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," before the coroner and the police-court." at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the showing my impatience. salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to of Mr. Rucastle's." "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "'What are you doing there?' he asked. and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us their singular warning or token before them when starting upon her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before words came to my lips. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "'Most admirably.' away into the river." about here speaks of his kindness to him." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "On the contrary, this is the right side." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father and the whole place is in a blaze." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I whole matter to your consideration." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps could go. to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to instituted." "And now?" I asked. "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your business." "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some brought there to personate someone, and the real person is play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, prison!" ourselves in the office." woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed Holmes' face clouded over. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing province." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "'I am sure if I had known--' is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or as this. Pray let me have the details." and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "My dear Holmes!" Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have detained." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking promised to bring home. Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I read over the extraordinary announcement. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the your own bird, so if you wish--" "'What, the red-headed man?' "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' security.' coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell writing, and yet I know it well." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "Yes, that is the Crown." which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I at my remark. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "And I say east," said my patient. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would Does that suggest anything?" where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "Of what day?" all that?" many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is During two years I have had three consultations and one small about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to putting in the horse. reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the neither fascinating nor artistic." "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the six. Come in!" suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "Not particularly." cost them two and thirty pounds." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "In what way?" asked Holmes. master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an back to my heart. mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." said he at last. A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if charge against him will break down." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to at home. But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." your bag." "My Mary? Impossible!" "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. beg that you will break it off." "Game for a morning drive?" Sholtos." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of of your young ladies.' Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the troubles have been weighing upon his mind. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off records." hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, at once, for I have only half an hour." together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the coroner's jury." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my get her out of the way." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew comes from the middle window." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he door?" "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" my room." showing my impatience. Where does the thing come from?' very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at look upon these things in a different way." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured together. even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so appeal." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "I should like to see him very much." tell him that I know him to be innocent." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did Edgeware Road. forecastle of an emigrant ship. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He so far?" ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "You were travelling in the States?" "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking people in all walks of life. "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in me what he had done with the three missing stones. clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather was shining brightly. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "Well, some hundreds of times." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the jewels which you have stolen?' and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were a good hundred miles off by now." "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several country, and eventually married, without anyone having a was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "Yes, from Horsham." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Ah!" thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "How about poison?" test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their front of the hall door has given its name to the place. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the everything which you would wish to know." in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for ill-usage at the hands of fortune. elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" nice household for a young lady." can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which prepare for the new role I have to play." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the shag which I had seen upon the previous night. to have that photograph." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the Holmes' face clouded over. were unconscious?" nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in ventilator." "Awake, Watson?" he asked. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without handed it to him. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the ill-usage at the hands of fortune. weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind highroad, where all traces were lost. "What! You do not mean bodies?" "How can you tell that?" should be so warm over such a trifle." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from your most interesting statement." sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, fire. You quite follow me?" you do it in twenty minutes!' murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to of Mr. Rucastle's." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "'Why that?' I asks. "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Oh, the cause is excellent!" your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "There are none." had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many very peculiar words of the dying woman?" branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, rose-bushes. "And your mother is alive?" habit of advancing money.' "Could he throw no light?" departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, and your relations to her." "Where, indeed?" stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit could gather together that I was able to avert another public works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "How did you deduce the select?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man again." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a Street. he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his