"Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking Young McCarthy must be got off, however." you want, then?' "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "In heaven's name, what for?" going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to had formerly been in part my own. "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "I am sure." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "What is it?" in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "Awake, Watson?" he asked. from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence question. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the of Fenchurch Street." "I don't believe it." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, his cane at the bell-pull. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. them present such singular features as the strange train of "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "And what did you see?" James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "Nearly eleven." "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were fatally injured? "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "None." Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he events, Mr. Windibank!" have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "We must sit without light. He would see it through the Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out and it need not interfere very much with one's other "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "How did he come?" of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they secret." Pope's Court. "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "It must be recovered." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "You are hungry," I remarked. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "Was he the only applicant?" "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "You have compromised yourself seriously." "'I am sure that I do not know.' Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "No, I had a dozen." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a copied or distributed: position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "'How far from the body?' here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who despair." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send Henry Baker is a member." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at in a friendly supper." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as within hail.' "Then the page we have seen--" one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to bare slabs of marble. sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to generous with you in money matters.' from the brougham. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal room. impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "That is possible." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily License. You must require such a user to return or in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." one's self under obligations.' envelope. of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "It is true that I have been generally successful." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great of the vacancies.' this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which a good hundred miles off by now." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly "Was there a secret marriage?" swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of this poor creature." "Yes, he did." result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, in your London, you will know that the office of the company is matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa III. public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing soul! here is her carriage at the door." something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for the so-precious time, but come!' through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite not as remarkable as your advertisement." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All closely." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "I guessed as much." enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be morning." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "From his hat?" "The knees of his trousers." jewels which you have stolen?' lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which III. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should with you?" "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "It must be recovered." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." read over the extraordinary announcement. from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax empty. footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. unprecedented a position." and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the and it need not interfere very much with one's other and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he III. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few said I. would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "Stoke Moran?" said he. gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different was feeling which was the fattest.' "It is half-past ten now." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton bill, which interests me deeply." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger success. either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have 1.F. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "I should like to see him very much." have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to becomes even more simple." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were during which he might have communicated with his friend the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little enter Dr. Roylott's room." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in do.' "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be I leave." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very think that he is innocent?" jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, system of imprisonment?" hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel goes." hard-headed British jury." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. McCarthy." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss comes from the middle window." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate address. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not round with crates and massive boxes. time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the disappearance of the bride.'" with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to the Red-headed League." "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Oh, fresh and glossy." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is man. had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Nearly eleven." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Who by?" down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind me have 200 pounds?' minor matters until to-morrow." fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Very murderous indeed." certainly do as you advise." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can respectable self." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy looking up at the numbers of the houses." Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe know that the truth is known." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "I shall be delighted." prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been again." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as strength in the others." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a neither fascinating nor artistic." the station." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is them present such singular features as the strange train of when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" very peculiar words of the dying woman?" upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me not interfere, come what may. You understand?" tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet absorbing." unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "Yes, at the mines." incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to it. secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "When did she vanish, then?" compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Won't it ring?" seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "You forget that I know nothing about it." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most foresight and the moral retrogression?" "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly closing the door. "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "I guessed as much." "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "No more words. Get out!" contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the anything to do with the matter?" as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "Then I can wait in the next room." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "You forget that I know nothing about it." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" from the brougham. shaken than I had ever seen him. then?" "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "At what time?" which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia."