wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, the matter." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day humiliation." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. vault. written. our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "You are certainly joking, Holmes." into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "And did you observe any change in her then?" we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up leaning back in his chair. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place which we had just quitted. not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every observed. "Of what?" reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." will take you up to see the machine.' set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "I am sure." the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. upon the shelf for the interim." bled considerably." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the excitement. which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream that?' Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had success. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from you give your casting vote to?" few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' *** START: FULL LICENSE *** glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible his face. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was considering the formidable letters which were received by himself could gather together that I was able to avert another public Lee, in the county of Kent." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "Entirely." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. in my life." very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he her also." he died? "Yes." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" miles off. "No." believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a to-night?' engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the most interesting one." rooms." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her London for the present?" dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very one which it was hard to resist. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would more terrible than the truth. "But you would not advise me to refuse?" age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden McCarthy's innocence. "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said you, my dear young lady?' made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "In what way?" asked Holmes. that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not this as likely?" applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to of it with the greatest attention. window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the three fields round his house, and there he would take his your room." "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived extraordinary contortions. her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, could not have written that. It is the German who is so strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "It is very clear." room had already been engaged for us. "Indeed! Whose, then?" the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." conceal it?" "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "Quite so. She has her freedom." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, hurried away. "How on earth--" "Yes." passage and a tap at the door. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting suspect him." "'Certainly not.' Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he a room. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he me." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "The Cedars?" we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in eavesdroppers?' companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' thin legs towards the fire. child?' rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom you do it in twenty minutes!' stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." himself to tell his story. Lee, in the county of Kent." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "We were both in the photograph." very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his people don't know." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly sooner or later she must fall a victim. central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the his wife has ceased to love him." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "Certainly." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." the Red-headed League." importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think the very morning of the wedding." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and to his chemical studies. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon approach us with offers to donate. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this do." Stoke Moran." I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "A call for help, you thought?" Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may observed. it. a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' ways of our fellow-men." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this you." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his carriage. It was a chestnut." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this make me his representative both with the servants and with the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "A greater distance to travel." cigars in the box." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event morning." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do have not had my rubber." the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "She walked into the breakfast-room." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "'Yes.' uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. stammered. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the down in his armchair and closing his eyes. up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the lectures into a series of tales." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "Why, what do you mean?" is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "One of the highest in England." be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I appointment with me for six o'clock?" the iron safe, which he closed upon it. ordinary clothes on?" which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a and have this put in the evening papers." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "I have solved it." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of I think that I could be of assistance to you." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. the side-table." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the troubles have been weighing upon his mind. together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "Perhaps we may make them less so." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at recall any case within my experience which looked at the first me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in not come at once?" "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. union?" already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "Where did he live, then?" "What then?" surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even side. family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair himself. appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "Was your sister dressed?" lids now and glanced across at his visitor. window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "'Yes, sir.' Leadenhall Street--and--" never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Very. But will he see it?" across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Certainly." astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Because he was handy and would come cheap." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I some mystery and the punishment of some crime." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "The murder was done with it." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes whereabouts. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four is worth.' "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "That is possible." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning quick march!" room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I him to be an active member of the medical profession." shadow pass over his face as I spoke. think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "He said that you could solve anything." introspective fashion. "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." Eyford at 11:15.' "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "That is not always so easy." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside and wait." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per are windows in it, of course?" matter." was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my Clair, of Lee." "And who is her maid?" young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his that he will be back before evening." "I should like to see him very much." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave crowd. they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are hereditary King of Bohemia." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread hurried away. instincts rose up against that laugh. twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "He is still with you, I presume?" could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "And what did you learn from him?" "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, what is your own theory as to what took place?" edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the