to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his and no precautions can guard against." "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." believe that I should never have any practice at all. coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "Well, but China?" written. "Nor running a chance of arrest?" unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "You horrify me!" jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I not fit the lock." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. ventilator." southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his your only hope of safety." were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Where did he live, then?" "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his ways of our fellow-men." "You are hungry," I remarked. single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it of the efforts of the United States government and of the better he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand highroad, where all traces were lost. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during conclusions. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the few hundred pounds.' other, as fresh and trim as possible. case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great despaired of." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, she used." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had most important business. It is probable that he will be away all dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were sufficient punishment." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this laugh and put his lips to my ear. the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had was not a bird to be seen there. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in like that before?" or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth had picked up in the wood. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against appointment with me for six o'clock?" "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we me where it went to?" "This concluded the examination of the witness." however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "And what did you learn from him?" about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." Count Von Kramm." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "But what will you do?" pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of a good hundred miles off by now." "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had strength of mind to control. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Certainly." prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the with you?" read it out to me." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard minor matters until to-morrow." half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "I should wish to." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of woman who has had her own way to make in the world. that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in becomes even more simple." again." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" clanging. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, IS and the church but not where the lady lived." "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." shoulder. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "Then I am your man." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. over part of the map. "What do you read?" of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them morning." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having closely." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front exactly what you advise." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "Nor running a chance of arrest?" Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "But how?" suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" one's self under obligations.' way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see away in different directions, and I went off to make my own was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be thin, with a long, sharp nose?" said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I peculiar to him. "Then I shall certainly come." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Ten will be early enough." "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous with you alone." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which could gather together that I was able to avert another public "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking existence." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours said he, "my real name is James Ryder." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the there when the Rucastles went away." have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building too. "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Very. But will he see it?" in a very precise fashion." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, the coroner come to?" the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." when your master had gone out." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been such attractions and accomplishments?' see a sister of mine apply for." Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "Very much so." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am approach us with offers to donate. papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how that threaten you." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable such attractions and accomplishments?' he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, noble correspondent could be. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master eat it." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "An enemy?" of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "The landlord of the Alpha." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She unclasping of his long thin hands. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but only touch the interest." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "My dear Holmes!" rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it against a man in the prime of life?" the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "But how did you gain them?" very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon the devil!" "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" noting anything else of interest. certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have for its centre. compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, particular state visit http://pglaf.org my secret was safe in his possession. "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock in this way: really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some green of the new foliage. was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "'Yes, sir.' hurried away. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was round with crates and massive boxes. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured woman." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the nonsense.' Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country enter into my head. License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard night.' said he. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't call for protection in the marriage market, for the present between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found crackling voice. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the Eyford at 11:15.' Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away your troubles." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I there has been an enclosure here!" inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done strength." "Quite so." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "'In my own bureau.' good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "The doctor?" "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day and capable of preserving a secret.' closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the likely to be some crony of the landlady's." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "'You cannot say what it was?' waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly round with crates and massive boxes. an introduction to him?" "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this conclusions. gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "So it appears." preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and second." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "Was she in good spirits?" glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, woman." from you?" "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings telegram would bring me down to your help." so far?" address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the me upon any point which I do not make clear." never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be sake, don't!" it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "'You doubt its value?' he asked. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either existence." mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a be.' one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, round and wave him away like that.' "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "You know me, then?" thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "Yes." to-morrow." have been better. It is all right." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "Murdered?" purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the tell me that you intended to go into harness." you do it in twenty minutes!' because she had spent so short a time in this country that she and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: nonsense.' out." of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be impression behind it as though a window had gently closed upon the white wrist. "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. derbies." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "Do you know him?" "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my that he will be back before evening." you in yours." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see is a common subject for conversation. docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it walking." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the distinguish the words: has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "But how?" "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to entirely lost his self-respect." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; the bottom.' of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "Yes, I have one waiting." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was