secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and floor. "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle McCarthy's innocence. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare peculiar to him. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear character. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "How can you tell that?" herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "Well." "The best possible." Count Von Kramm." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. particular state visit http://pglaf.org My friend smiled. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." knowledge of the world." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 had died away into the silence from which it rose. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" garden below. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding that?' the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "I don't say that. Perhaps." which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "No, I think that I'll take it." stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an but preventing her from injuring another. The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with himself. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made simple cases which are so extremely difficult." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion friends, not even his own brother. "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered made him keep the appointment." man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person John Swain, of St. Augustine. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not crackling voice. and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of the coroner come to?" There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I to his chemical studies. "I think it very unlikely." sufficient punishment." should be so warm over such a trifle." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "What will you do, then?" after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "And from a noble client?" these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my hour." "I shall be delighted." wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, that threaten you." "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "'Certainly not.' in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "I am armed." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another down. the tragedy. "'I have heard so.' had this final quarrel? "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "That you are never beaten." "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, undoubtedly my uncle's." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the existence." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made had picked up in the wood. us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story nice household for a young lady." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "Then you may entirely rely on me." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "From his hat?" together. "My dear Holmes!" "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must carpenter." "Yes, I have one waiting." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a you in your example." that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." green of the new foliage. "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to you understand?" buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it main points of my analysis." behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "Which surely he restored to their owner?" not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary one else, I think." "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon your only hope of safety." the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "How are you getting on?" "But she will refuse." through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "I was afraid that you were engaged." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my hour." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I conduct the inquiry." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk pity, because in other respects you would really have done very little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached people don't know." on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, brought there to personate someone, and the real person is morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "That you are never beaten." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies security.' It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the instincts rose up against that laugh. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there walking." He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." for the market.' "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "I am armed." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so waste of energy." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'It is locked up,' I answered. well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "None. Neville wrote those words." wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was did not hear it also.' best detective that ever lived. you?' "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No and effective." see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I has little to do with my story." someone who had been in Australia." sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he seven miles from Eyford Station.' "But we can't all be." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to the stable lane now." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the easy-going way." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project promised to bring home. know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel floor. I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "And when will you call?" and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on for its centre. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying him, that man would not have given me such complete information father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "What! Had he lost his wife?" subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the even of instruction." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the to some other building. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "At the wedding breakfast." Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you bled considerably." the station." "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "Upon what point?" justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the it." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of trying to your nerves." been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as other means.' "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose learned something! Where are the gems?" shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "By all means." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of comes from the middle window." "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or families. Now for the facts. fact, we may call it conclusive." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to into the room. "Yes." Edgeware Road. "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "Yes." records." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a maiden herself was most instructive." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her Surrey." I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our from the brougham. "No, I am descending." stammered. every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Then I can wait in the next room." beg that you will break it off." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY not, dad?" she asked. she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "'Then let me do so?' several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of one which it was hard to resist. tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so sound at heart." "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first "'What, the red-headed man?' his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent look upon these things in a different way." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there three of the beryls in it, was missing. hurried by. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. noble correspondent could be. the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of Holmes." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "Quite so. She has her freedom." "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such minor matters until to-morrow." looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. had formerly been in part my own. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a you in your example." "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up crime." my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It father's place of business?" was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "Here?" "And help." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "I think that it is very probable." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while Again Holmes raved in the air. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my "I do." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are http://www.gutenberg.net For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "How did that help you?" "It's nothing of the kind." to-morrow." "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' nice household for a young lady." weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, without a word or a look. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him.