once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "There are none." someone who had been in Australia." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and morning." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "I was sure that I might rely on you." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His absolutely follow my advice in every respect." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was his face. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for threw himself down with his face to the pillow. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "No, distinctly professional." showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three there was no need for father to know." looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he lost his Christmas dinner." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a useful material for showing traces. The double line a little man. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. promised to bring home. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Now, then, what's the last entry?" stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "Who was the criminal, then?" of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are never came back." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his you came in." if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like orange pips. "'What then?' I asked. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved did not hear it also.' "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend completely overtopped every other consideration that we both man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered be.' ran thus: "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. where she found matters as described by the last witness. Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. IS he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "What will you do, then?" ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, at home. it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, only touch the interest." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been sofa. This way, please!" in this note: "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my fluttered off among the others. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual six. Come in!" other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "Ha! you find it so?" into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the in a very precise fashion." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. long narrative. so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs page at http://pglaf.org obstinate." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in thin legs towards the fire. moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, not interfere, come what may. You understand?" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to I was concerned in it." enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you through." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for be.' headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "The rest you will leave in our hands." for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" delirious. I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "My own seal." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate papers on the sundial.'" to where he stood hid behind the curtain. endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "Pray tell us what has happened to you." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up the coronet in his hand?" is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't once more on the important position which you have been fortunate The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from it means?" upon the sideboard." "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at which it had come upon my father." refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as the matter." "It was an hour's good drive." "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses confronted him. snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone place, I think that there is good ground to think that the by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom that threaten you." When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' husband's writing, madam." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. dramatic, in fact." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important plantation.' which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that ways including including checks, online payments and credit card quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the back alive. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly the inquest, and which are worth considering." he bowed and left the room without another word. "I came to find a friend." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Yes, certainly." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and chance at all." clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather chance at all." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, better in every way that they should make their position a little woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "No, but the enclosure is." souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my way in everything. society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "Then I shall certainly come." something of him before." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "Perhaps we may make them less so." "At the wedding breakfast." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "Married! When?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Yes." wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom presented which may be striking and bizarre without being little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, his knees, staring into the fire. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." child?' august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and charge against him will break down." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his several quiet little villages up there." there has been an enclosure here!" closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. extraordinary contortions. your most interesting statement." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, there were so many in the whole country as were brought together it." "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "Yes, but only for you and me." and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty It may be so in this case, also." "Really! You surprise me." his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you him, that man would not have given me such complete information the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock His name is Francis Prosper." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a to-night's adventure." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "About a month then." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "What do you mean?" purpose equally well?" in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "Then I do not see the point." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Yes." shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "Get out!" said he. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "One of his hands." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "I shall be delighted." "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly room?" His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "And from a noble client?" 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived and the whole place is in a blaze." this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret it? Did I buy the geese off you?" jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated chamber." married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was Holmes rather sternly. fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which possible that we could bring him back to her? "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and hour." said he. drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with of a light. there." they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that bell. Holmes whistled. to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "Yes, the wine-cellar." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad nights." and that he would see to anything that turned up. "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself overpowering excitement and concern. figure." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun second window is the one that I jumped from." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house tell me that you intended to go into harness." "A greater distance to travel." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "Was she in good spirits?" sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is triumphant cloud from his cigarette. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "There is the writing." you." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "Get out!" said he. didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "And why?" do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off I leave." his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about points to suicide?" "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet had a long day." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge own family. known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "I see many objections to any such theory." convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "I guessed as much." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a off." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever not fit the lock." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" in one or two places in England?' "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "No?" had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came ways including including checks, online payments and credit card other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love suddenly upon us." "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is delighted to hear it," he said. Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect fish-monger and a tide-waiter." I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a http://www.gutenberg.net any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She