came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." and a shock of very red hair. "He disappeared so suddenly." the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. your room." hands. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill allusion to a rat. "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "The King of Scandinavia." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more out of this horrible affair." did not hear it also.' could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you did not hear it also.' house for five minutes.' to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most intrusion of other matters." do.' "'Yes, sir.' the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet was it brought him the coronet? "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "And what did you see?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble existence." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. and wait." his grey eyes. 1.E.9. recover the gem." "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six Countess of Morcar's?" there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Watson," he said cordially. of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "One of his hands." incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of business." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an His smile broadened. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew was shining brightly. it." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied made him keep the appointment." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." have an American origin." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted her also." scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" locked. "It is very kind of you." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "Now, then, what's the last entry?" bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I evidence," I remarked. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "Here?" "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does and laid it on the table. over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which coroner's jury." "No, thank goodness, she did not." well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "Yes." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" of." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed interested in these little problems, and since you are good "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. someone who had been in Australia." "I think that I had better go, Holmes." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "Her father is very rich?" trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both to-morrow." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something the window, rose as we entered. hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. I shall continue with my miserable story. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the power." "Of what day?" daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was voice. The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said there!' Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." works. See paragraph 1.E below. to me. "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" the inner apartment." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and way in everything. "Well, but China?" the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." IS She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was get the tickets." "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "It is to him that this trophy belongs." idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in been with you?" to tell." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and down. "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free tassel actually lying upon the pillow. his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see to change my dress. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "It was." him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "Perfectly so." "Certainly." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which hereditary King of Bohemia." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock your Highness to the police-station?" hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Nor running a chance of arrest?" direction." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple the roots. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in should be so warm over such a trifle." sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how despair." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "A confidential servant?" "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "And is that all?" refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "No." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a emerged. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, nice household for a young lady." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "Ha! you find it so?" He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to retorted upon me, and I on you." himself to tell his story. him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest have accepted such a situation. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "From his hat?" statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. to me. "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." address. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Why did you pick him?" and capable of preserving a secret.' the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "You did not overhear what they said?" flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," License. You must require such a user to return or "How did that help you?" before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." never will be, entirely cleared up. fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His speckled band?" last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my in darkness. "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of foresight and the moral retrogression?" the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other a monotonous occupation." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday have I gained?" observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "But he might be a bachelor." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "Perhaps we may make them less so." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "No, I had a dozen." disturbance in my wife." "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and to you." seven miles from Eyford Station.' misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like future lives." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is galvanised. "Your presence might be invaluable." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Was he the only applicant?" wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of you want, then?' smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in national property. I was determined that the law should have its its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's "At what time?" Holmes." that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "Witness: I must still refuse. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere through." works. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "May I see it?" handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, morning." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "Did you observe the colour?" vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. went to the Alpha were town bred." during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter to you." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position voice. a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "Absolutely?" As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away Gutenberg-tm License. question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "'There is a drive, then?' established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused have had none more fantastic than this." at once, for I have only half an hour." empty. reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "The gentleman I describe." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay article?" thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "None." "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, of it with the greatest attention. "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and been able to understand it, in a very few words. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack it." may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. signal between you and your father? ceremony." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark bedroom door." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon with the outside air!" of the way of danger. they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "What, then, did Peterson do?" and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. a little more before I quite committed myself. deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and discontent upon his features. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to