"'And what salary do you ask?' order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled matter." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there This is what he says: "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" and inquire as to the address." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do asked. of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "Dirty?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "What will you say?" this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open that that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "What steps will you take?" I asked. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have to surprise her." "Thank you. And your address?" "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home third from London." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know detective. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "And who is her maid?" "I will, Miss Turner." now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "'Never,' said I. maiden herself was most instructive." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the the address that was given us in the advertisement. savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the not, dad?" she asked. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "'And what salary do you ask?' about. "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no over here." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "If so, much may have happened between." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one some terrible trap for her." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "Was he the only applicant?" 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at to change my dress. "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "That also I could fathom." "I say it is." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a His smile broadened. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I distance from the station, and there we found the young lady master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his time." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, head. So long, then!" his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "What! You do not mean bodies?" his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "'About the same.' "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held before the coroner and the police-court." suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own Foundation works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or the child." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project presented which may be striking and bizarre without being better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "They are typewritten," I remarked. breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "Why did you pick him?" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed remarked. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with The King stared at him in amazement. me have 200 pounds?' "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was she might be summoned. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "That you are never beaten." value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still nonsense.' "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to experiences." retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, know what is wrong with it.' "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "It came here." "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. Sutherland. you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "Pray do so." fuss that is made over them." St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "I shall be delighted." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "Why did you beat the pavement?" get her out of the way." "Not him." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' papers must be those that are destroyed.' it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then sooner or later she must fall a victim. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the or other trace. But how on earth--" gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" Again Holmes raved in the air. which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Nearly eleven." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to bill, which interests me deeply." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "That is possible." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened one's self under obligations.' Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of gone. some place of shelter and let the county police know what has about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want been lifted and conveyed somewhere." only touch the interest." imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of narrative." located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what fuss that is made over them." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated foot. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. second." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "An accident, I presume?" impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she gone. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "Do you go out much in society?" human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom it." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "Married! When?" "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "They are typewritten," I remarked. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary companion quietly. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "I see many objections to any such theory." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "Awake, Watson?" he asked. before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything one's self under obligations.' fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters lamp in his hand. chair. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "But his lameness?" things are very often connected not with the larger but with the the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "'It is locked up,' I answered. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "Pray do so." her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "The knees of his trousers." square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "It goes to the housekeeper's room." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want status with the IRS. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are notes," he said. on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." Pope's Court. assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from questioning and rather startled gaze. The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after Heh?' ashen face. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" Heh?' the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. lumber-room." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was his forehead." one or two very singular points about this room. For example, that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, mystery." Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "I beg pardon." remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you annoyance, but no jest. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life it with his own hands." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that this man was intellectual?" of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either death." I was concerned in it." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and tapping his fingers upon the table. likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "If so, much may have happened between." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "My private note-paper." and all of them with the keenest interest. "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, You can understand that this register and diary may implicate three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "'I have already given you my word.' or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "That is it on the dressing-table." not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have other means.' age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "Have you her photograph?" a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a ordinary clothes on?" sooner or later she must fall a victim. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I speckled band?" over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Certainly, madam." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became best detective that ever lived. This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able the driver. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "I guessed as much." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "He slept on the premises." garden below. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this observed. imbecility!" he cried. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "But she could not love him." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining