have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." through." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard something of him before." "Yes, from Horsham." mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "But what harm can there be in that?" uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "No, I am descending." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, questioning and rather startled gaze. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my questioning and rather startled gaze. the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation may have an influence upon European history." dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "And you don't know his address?" "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's death." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out Stoke Moran." I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "Not him." constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The was shining brightly. "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. a room. Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions of Mr. Rucastle's." "About a month then." "You horrify me." value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "In answer to an advertisement." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "Yes, I have one waiting." He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout my special province." "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. might have a private word with us. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "But how will you look?" framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came call for it in person on Monday morning.' man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate felt the room to be a little close.' What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are considering the formidable letters which were received by himself some terrible trap for her." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call weary and pale-looking. Street. begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "10th. John Swain cleared. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not the coronet in his hand?" gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "And your father? Did you tell him?" and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." lost his Christmas dinner." doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "And how did he make his money?" "Eh? What was that?" should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." than to us. into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "If I can be of use." "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "I will not look." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you him, that man would not have given me such complete information Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will weighed down with some great anxiety. reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "'About the same.' should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, point our research must commence, and we will begin it by friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this of this gang." "Well, but China?" Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." our word." "He said that you could solve anything." with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, interested in these little problems, and since you are good than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of least a most suspicious remark." Watson," he said cordially. me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "And you thought he was pulled back?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Entirely." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would during that time.' into the bag, and made for the door. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you where she found matters as described by the last witness. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he ordinary clothes on?" fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into note?" man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "I will do it." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the get the tickets." stammered. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. than was visible to me." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a yourselves in at night?" learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are them present such singular features as the strange train of "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "You think that he is dead?" "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that garden below. he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I lips." THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing noise which awoke you from your sleep?" him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "You are all wrong." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up have had none more fantastic than this." "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the into the room. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more that before taking the final step I should like to submit the already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger the coroner come to?" unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily brandy and water within his reach. keep the flames under. not as remarkable as your advertisement." main points of my analysis." "I should like to see him very much." not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." rose-bushes. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Oh, fresh and glossy." you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "Perfectly so." what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." Holmes rather sternly. whole matter to your consideration." "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "Yes." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy man. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "'Is purely nominal.' "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "You'll never persuade me to believe that." called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I such person." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman might have a private word with us. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number secret." "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "I am sure." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with over his head with a sweet womanly caress. him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then means taking possession of that which another person has a prior little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you nonsense.' other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before use an arc-and-compass breastpin." such attractions and accomplishments?' "Nothing?" "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "9th. McCauley cleared. was a loud and authoritative tap. long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem disturbance in my wife." "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your burst out into a roar of laughter. "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing client, rising. Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "It surprised me." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he entirely lost his self-respect." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' Edgeware Road. buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "You did not overhear what they said?" had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "Where, indeed?" and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Cross for the Continent." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then morning." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Have you it here?" "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "Then he might have called to you?" down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "How can you tell that?" can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back that asked with his eyes open. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a your most interesting statement." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence the driver. her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy Count Von Kramm." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. events than those which have happened in my own family." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes you give your casting vote to?" A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a straightened it out again. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire was a loud and authoritative tap. vault. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money system of imprisonment?" right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite discontent upon his features. he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "You think so, too?" Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, such attractions and accomplishments?' questionable one." distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow eat it." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you during which he might have communicated with his friend the quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to enter Dr. Roylott's room." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you when your master had gone out." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, three fields round his house, and there he would take his across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, directors, with the result that you have seen." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have Countess of Morcar's?" "No." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and strong reason behind." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "We must have a cab." prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me least a fellow-countryman. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "We must have a cab." "The King of Scandinavia." tapping his fingers upon the table. do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a villagers almost as much as their master. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of three of the beryls in it, was missing. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "No, but the enclosure is." have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, McCarthy." "'Yes, it was gone.' Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here this Miss Turner." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the during the last few years, and there are many noble families to through." shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. 1.F. overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he house for five minutes.' matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. The King stared at him in amazement. didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "Did you observe the colour?" every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of leave you to your papers for a little." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Yes, sir." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "I am about to be married." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as ill-usage at the hands of fortune. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "I never have." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, thought that she would have been so carried away." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon particular state visit http://pglaf.org a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything