was already answered. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "It is very kind of you." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going conclusions. "Bought." in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those and put his glass in his pocket. repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be photograph?" I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into not personally threatened." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I papers." dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "But his left-handedness." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name one else, I think." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in Where does the thing come from?' our word." "I cannot think." am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker she used." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." Edgeware Road. to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which whole matter to your consideration." "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of tassel actually lying upon the pillow. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of goes." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and and glanced through. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "I have come for advice." make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. cup of tea. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, happened." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not not as remarkable as your advertisement." know that the truth is known." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your empty. be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all politicians who had been sent down from the North. shaken than I had ever seen him. morning." "He slept on the premises." know what is wrong with it.' "Perhaps I have." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would happened." "What then?" Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive towards the blaze. "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. that I can to serve you." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture the running down." dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily if I call to-morrow?" and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "Imitated." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "Do you receive much company?" he asked. outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" Where does the thing come from?' "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must burst out into a roar of laughter. before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "Yes, but only for you and me." have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it ran thus: that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "We have tried and failed." success. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Will you go?" ceremony." woven round him. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here into the bag, and made for the door. "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "What office?" "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were know all about it," he snarled. action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on considering the formidable letters which were received by himself It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "Yes, there are nearly always some there." mystery may be cleared along those lines." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in your equipment. yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this useful material for showing traces. The double line a little so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that status with the IRS. yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea and capable of preserving a secret.' "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that I nodded again. cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' in his power. "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "The Coroner: What do you mean? "'I have already given you my word.' of fine shops and stately business premises that they really searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "And for present expenses?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though shoulder; "he's all right." between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. cigars in their mouths. dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I maid will bring up your coffee." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little disturbance in my wife." Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to fire. You quite follow me?" gbnewby@pglaf.org "But how will you look?" country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" entirely lost his self-respect." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "I was certainly surprised to find you there." You want to know what became of those geese?" "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "Dr. Becher's." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." stepfather?" "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "You did not overhear what they said?" of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that fire. You quite follow me?" house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "I warn you that they are very incomplete." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the the coronet at all injured?" and I shall be with you presently." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "And who is her maid?" 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous asked. last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair overpowering excitement and concern. as noiselessly as she had come. "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I of it with the greatest attention. "And how in the world did you find them?" we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught and prosperity to your house. Good-night." noise which awoke you from your sleep?" keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, house for five minutes.' this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on foresight and the moral retrogression?" and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. Holmes." large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk more terrible than the truth. danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom it." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "I guessed as much." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, place, I think that there is good ground to think that the it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "But how?" surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "Who by?" think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "Yes, from Horsham." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, case before our client came into the room." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the my room." "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. seven miles from Eyford Station.' "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how thought that she would have been so carried away." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." clanging. came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. particular state visit http://pglaf.org All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "Were they all fastened this morning?" "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel Doctor, of the paper and the date." a suggestive one." London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled their singular warning or token before them when starting upon hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Witness: Nothing definite. from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "The knees of his trousers." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left weapon." dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Not yet." "And that is--" the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes cigars in their mouths. of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and me where it went to?" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of hour?' "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." Holmes' face clouded over. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." strode off upon his way. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she anything to a woman, for she would have her way." visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "No." "Then the page we have seen--" "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. about. the best of training." and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you fuss that is made over them." without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very village inn over there?" Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "Ha! you find it so?" hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "And Irene Adler?" Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom putting in the horse. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There fear." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "But she could not love him." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "Thank you. And your address?" and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "Very. But will he see it?" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide go back?" "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly very old mansion. to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I have one." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, fact, we may call it conclusive." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "I am armed." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." there has been an enclosure here!" "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks me. You must get home instantly and act." soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, the inner apartment." 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a girl said." "You think so, too?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and direction." But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into