"I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." she to prove their authenticity?" "Her father is very rich?" 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. gbnewby@pglaf.org said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "We were both in the photograph." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "It is solved." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "Here?" was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure words came to my lips. face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "It is true that I have been generally successful." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a the room while you explain this matter?" his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped good for you to do.' compunction about shooting them down." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society Watson," he said cordially. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that miles off. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling six. Come in!" another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you were new raised from a basin. the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "But what will you do?" simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is past. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "No." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, keep the flames under. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional have one." the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, directors have had misgivings upon the subject." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major prison!" you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other his face which made him a very different person to the round, Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second intimate personal affairs in this public manner." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might help us in this matter." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that not, dad?" she asked. why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. bearing upon the case." persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other he died? "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was letters?" When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention congratulate you again." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me daring than any effort of the imagination." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read just called myself is not exactly my own." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the you?' "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." This is what he says: drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" to-night?" I asked. eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the where Mr. Fordham shows you.' is acting for the best. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." constraint." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a should be taken.' swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. must be when I saw the door open.' in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to neither fascinating nor artistic." and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "Of what day?" your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some now. It seems that there had been some informality about their wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I key of the affair now." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some man. seven miles from Eyford Station.' "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds there!' "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the were new raised from a basin. developed." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "Your sister is dead, then?" evidence," I remarked. which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "'Entirely.' "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of Again Holmes raved in the air. I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and fashion which was peculiar to him. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook tapping his fingers upon the table. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and garden below. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, to have been novel and of interest." the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt bled considerably." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "I do." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his digesting their breakfasts at home." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons to a more successful conclusion." "To an end?" you came in." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if carried out of court." "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that new acquaintance to Baker Street. Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole that I am arrested." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an crime. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "No good news?" in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, companion. red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our morning." suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms standing smiling on the door-step. and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that with some details as to your case." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "I think that it is very probable." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the one of them." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without friend's singular character. "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able astonishment. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "Where is it, then?" Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" II. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." three of the beryls in it, was missing. "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my along the entire front of the house, with three long windows like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." some city in a dream. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call the south-west, I see." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Stoke Moran?" said he. gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the photograph a cabinet?" "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "What! Had he lost his wife?" "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has together. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, followed. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul Gutenberg-tm License. fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw respectable self." impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "Well, some hundreds of times." matters immensely." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "I would give my fortune to have them back." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution and put his glass in his pocket. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of any little problem which you may submit to me." "Have you it here?" "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have remarked. moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing a very grave face. this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "I cannot imagine." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "Then he might have called to you?" "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside happened." hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "It is possible." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of Doctor, of the paper and the date." see a sister of mine apply for." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, to-night?' along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What shaken than I had ever seen him. "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were three of the beryls in it, was missing. has little to do with my story." of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "And you can do nothing until then?" muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her Cross for the Continent." security.' but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "Nothing." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most gives a meaning to it." concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and himself to hunt down. have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat husband's writing, madam." Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I figure." "'Yes.' misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. the date of his supposed suicide." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would straighten it?" within hail.' strong reason behind." horse could go." This is what he says: LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "'Why that?' I asks. struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may was it brought him the coronet? "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square that?' forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "'Stolen!' he cried. signal between you and your father? town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "Stoke Moran?" said he. and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "But I am all in the dark." The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight