opportunities to fix the problem. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "You don't mind breaking the law?" "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "Dark enough and sinister enough." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "The doctor?" "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would it with his own hands." your room." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "No. What a strange idea!" receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should approach us with offers to donate. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as never will be, entirely cleared up. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my tassel actually lying upon the pillow. two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." putting in the horse. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked be. explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that Clair, of Lee." here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a one else, I think." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one humiliation." dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to asked. town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "That is unusual in a young girl." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. me. in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "No, finished." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such important." "What is it, then--a fire?" "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had felt?" "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "I shall be delighted." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "Oh, fresh and glossy." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden fashion which was peculiar to him. his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "Very. But will he see it?" contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "'I am sure that I do not know.' 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an quick march!" follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "Thank you. And your address?" him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella straighten it?" to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while placed his cuttings. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I paper in the air. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly prepare for the new role I have to play." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce fasten all the windows?" "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger my friend's incisive reasoning. age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, what do you think they found in the pockets?" he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the the general public were present, then?" "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "What is it, then--a fire?" will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for Arthur Conan Doyle PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly several quiet little villages up there." has little to do with my story." will not take me long to tell. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so drove away. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "And how have you succeeded?" He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands power." Holmes." had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many six. Come in!" maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he one of the states of the Union." power." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The tapping his fingers upon the table. papers diligently of late, have you not?" and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "'What are you doing there?' he asked. parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. attention." "Murdered?" "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "Well?" "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "I am in hopes that she does." "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle power." one of them." might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "Certainly." enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and depend upon my doing so.' "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of could go. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "The King of Scandinavia." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my his cane at the bell-pull. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my infinite languor in his face. wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and chill to my heart. blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." interests were the same as his." never to learn it at all." toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. where we are going." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "I will get her to show me." Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "I will try. What is it?" dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "Well." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the one of the states of the Union." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us the side-table." have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever be sorry for having acted so harshly." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. purpose equally well?" "We must sit without light. He would see it through the do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. I held the little printed slip to the light. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and mysterious end." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort strong and stiff." papers." While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this case before our client came into the room." "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the late!' "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will written. robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they I nodded again. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly is worth.' "My dear Holmes!" suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "Yes, the wine-cellar." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever than to us. round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "Really! You surprise me." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Have you her photograph?" a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "Here?" "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the to a light-house. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and house for five minutes.' had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I morning." is four-and-twenty." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. front of me. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from writers could invent nothing more crude." explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "I am in hopes that she does." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "'Never.' The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the and the church but not where the lady lived." "'Yes, sir.' The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "'And the work?' "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. main points of my analysis." a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in Surrey." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always bachelor.' office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock advice." hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On out of this horrible affair." to a light-house. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows certainly do as you advise." "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent The note was undated, and without either signature or address. grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought them?" bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "Not particularly." tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this the best of training." way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see Munro.' she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed photograph?" and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and with frightened eyes at his accuser. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "And when will you call?" doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "It is solved." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted wedding?" very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "Indeed! Whose, then?" an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now up this clue while it is still hot." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he invisible to me," I remarked. with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank ventilator." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest did not hear it also.' Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "'Very good.' "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, present strange and interesting features that it is no easy shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few very old mansion. "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in His name is Francis Prosper." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. Countess of Morcar's?" "'Entirely.' "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting crime." Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes like gravel from a pit.' blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else."