"The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. possible that we could bring him back to her? the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you hurried away. from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check over with notes and figures. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any The summons was a brief and urgent one. time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were even so self-evident a thing as that." bachelor.' impression behind it as though a window had gently closed been anything against him. He had for years been known as a which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "'I have already given you my word.' began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, the inquest, and which are worth considering." I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "Did you become engaged then?" and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer purpose of examination. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "You don't mind breaking the law?" starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "Then what has happened to him?" "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his clang of the bell. "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. cheerful." successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you meanly of me." daring than any effort of the imagination." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' relief. what is your own theory as to what took place?" occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Pray continue your narrative." fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these place no limit on the sum I may draw." had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. crime." introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" bird I ate is country bred." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a breakfast." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." entirely lost his self-respect." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is despaired of." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "Then I can wait in the next room." companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power murdered man." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "It was an hour's good drive." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite such attractions and accomplishments?' Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "Where is it, then?" "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "I should like to see him very much." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. Munro.' "Very truly yours, "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and emerged. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I if I call to-morrow?" really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were forehead. days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were then?" "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "It is possible." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by works. See paragraph 1.E below. that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are your sleep?' these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call putting in the horse. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." Lee, in the county of Kent." down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow made his money." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "No more words. Get out!" "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what I think that I could be of assistance to you." "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a will he say when he returns?" "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "'Certainly not. But why?' "No." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "That also I could fathom." awaited us upon the table. lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "The Coroner: What do you mean? electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, results." awaited us upon the table. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "A client, then?" Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his Watson," he said cordially. "Always." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "Well, but China?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some felt the room to be a little close.' to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire highly," said Holmes. did not hear it also.' George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon where she found matters as described by the last witness. sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the meant it for the best. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the at my remark. nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my society." some terrible trap for her." act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "I see no marks." Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that that I may have something better before very many minutes are to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it fattened it expressly for you.' on re-entering her father's house?" that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our the Friday. Was it to be in church?" my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over nights." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "And I." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob window when the police appeared." "What have you to say now?" occurred." Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his washing it down with a long draught of water. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" his cane at the bell-pull. twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "Why, it's a dummy," said he. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near never came back." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "And what did you see?" "I say that I have solved it." when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH throat." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." union?" every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey were unconscious?" "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other arrangements." but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "And I." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the happened." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue what these perils are?" which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. interest. They are important, you understand, without being the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to off." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "I am armed." I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white giving me time to thank him. considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of "Of Friday, June 19th." "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address have been better. It is all right." the Friday. Was it to be in church?" as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. man. as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of already referred to. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has light and attacked it." old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "What office?" and put his glass in his pocket. "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune details should find their way into the papers. Inspector subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come when your master had gone out." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming case before our client came into the room." enough to aid us in our search." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I I nodded again. "Then I am your man." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and not use it unless it is absolutely needed." and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about child?' Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in death." breakfast." was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch McCarthy." you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "'I have already given you my word.' which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. which I could not give. He asked for Alice. so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in works. See paragraph 1.E below. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want roused himself from his reverie. "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them you." "But how?" "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "The doctor?" "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his colonel looking down at me. gbnewby@pglaf.org "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "Which are?" iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "'Very good.' "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of been with you?" gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come them?" A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert with frightened eyes at his accuser. again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had cost them two and thirty pounds." meant it for the best. Sutherland. who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "To the police?" and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a unclasping of his long thin hands. a good hundred miles off by now." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought bill, which interests me deeply." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt indeed happy." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and gigantic client. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of my former friend and companion. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how one which it was hard to resist. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' followed. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?"