second window is the one that I jumped from." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been footfalls from the street. "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it we went to search for him, face downward in a little hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to I took the paper from him and read as follows: gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would Pope's Court. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. to go into your room and bar your shutters?" whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "None." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to chill to my heart. "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. electronic works with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very strength of mind to control. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "I cannot imagine." "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my writers could invent nothing more crude." crime. than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for over with notes and figures. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the had formerly been in part my own. daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "What are they?" he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know pity, because in other respects you would really have done very arrangements." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Well, some hundreds of times." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "Then how many are there?" was lame." "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, London for the present?" are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; deduce something from that?" they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away to-night?' pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the which I could not give. He asked for Alice. "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it conclusions. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the may have an influence upon European history." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "Have you it here?" "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. written. the south-west, I see." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. IS found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I shoulder. "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past I have it here in my museum." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our me, and I could not think that his explanation of the opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were later, upon the night of May 2nd." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "But she will refuse." chamber." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge villagers almost as much as their master. address. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire showing my impatience. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." approach us with offers to donate. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice which I could not give. He asked for Alice. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated chill to my heart. here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "'Yes, it was gone.' coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest fuss that is made over them." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." rooms." arrested. You then--" "Stolen, then." have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "And how did he make his money?" him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "It is true that I have been generally successful." one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was be sorry for having acted so harshly." something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in enter Dr. Roylott's room." England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the 11:15.' "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he was not a bird to be seen there. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "So I am. Very much so." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "Where did he live, then?" "What! Had he lost his wife?" A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me was feeling which was the fattest.' "'And what are they worth?' I asked. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the carried out of court." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "And sit in the dark?" really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "And sit in the dark?" Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a way in." papers diligently of late, have you not?" "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might washing it down with a long draught of water. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "Have you it here?" once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "Where did you address your letters, then?" window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize Watson," he said cordially. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his thirty. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of know that the truth is known." "Have you her photograph?" "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "May I see it?" least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical returned to France?" "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "You have a clue?" the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. grasp, he hurried from the room. table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was evidence," I remarked. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. nonsense.' "And why?" precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire the date of his supposed suicide." it? Did I buy the geese off you?" as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "I came to find a friend." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Have you her photograph?" ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "I have a cab outside." The King stared at him in amazement. and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "What can you not understand?" the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "I have seen the police." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What she used." Holmes' room. with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "Yes?" mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see do." Miss Holder?" you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Holmes, the busybody!" full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in over part of the map. "What do you read?" have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" long narrative. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin which are rolled in Rotterdam." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Of Friday, June 19th." "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending excitement. to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, of Fenchurch Street." errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little what do you think they found in the pockets?" married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "I was afraid that you were engaged." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed round with crates and massive boxes. "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "A client, then?" was the fact that his father should, according to his account, rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "10th. John Swain cleared. that I may have something better before very many minutes are his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man 11:15.' "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back open." "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "Yes." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance province." "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the clanging. "But your client--" "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "Why did you beat the pavement?" she to prove their authenticity?" tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the is four-and-twenty." tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "It was an hour's good drive." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a once more for Briony Lodge. having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "But what harm can there be in that?" wedding?" certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "But his lameness?" was once confined in the cab my mission was practically I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes individual and becomes the badge of a society." "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." what I may call a really hard day's work." We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "Ample." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "To the police?" was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his enter Dr. Roylott's room." plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell weapon." "And how did you find out?" permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt my little problems." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "'Certainly not.' Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined good for you to do.' my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to awaited us upon the table. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "I beg pardon." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in know that the truth is known." hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain this truth that in these little records of our cases which you caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Then the page we have seen--" "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "Ah, but I was recommended to you." reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "A greater distance to travel." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be shoulder; "he's all right." think you a quite exceptional woman." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "'Is purely nominal.' Heh?' golden eyeglasses. the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the late." If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "In answer to an advertisement." reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "We must sit without light. He would see it through the son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would formed some opinion?" electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in nonsense.' so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless wedding?" dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him the loss of it. "And why?" cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who