of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, unprecedented a position." when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place flock.' there was no need for father to know." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, to have that photograph." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is lamp. "We must have a cab." arrangements." detained." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Yes, it would be as well." unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle article?" Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a prison!" "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "Why serious?" "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." matter." six. Come in!" sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened tension within him. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "'I shall certainly be there.' face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "No." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "But how will you look?" Foundation "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall even of instruction." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "No, I am descending." more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel closing the door. "And I to find an enemy." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "But he might be a bachelor." examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the started for the Temple to see my husband. "Pray do so." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of nights." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on cigars in the box." window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was pierced for earrings?" this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set guilty parties." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed one's self under obligations.' practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." paper in the air. came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "What have you to say now?" all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no might help us?" discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," down in his armchair and closing his eyes. and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to You can understand that this register and diary may implicate Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Yes, they were peculiar boots." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, not within a twentieth part of the market price." "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily events than those which have happened in my own family." that there was nothing in it, after all." which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that must compliment you." of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the my special province." the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And undoubtedly my uncle's." "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "Then how many are there?" bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until said he, "my real name is James Ryder." solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. Holmes' thin, eager face. the tragedy. glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not just called myself is not exactly my own." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm with frightened eyes at his accuser. one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon directors, with the result that you have seen." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you get her out of the way." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, opportunities to fix the problem. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm least a fellow-countryman. meant." window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at train.' "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his and the church but not where the lady lived." "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could entirely lost his self-respect." help us in this matter." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Where is it, then?" before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "'Stolen!' he cried. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream strong reason behind." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "Yes, it was twisted." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "So I heard. You have him here?" "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said I nodded again. "So I am. Very much so." simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for Lee, in the county of Kent." have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "Murdered?" what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "Of what?" "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' later, upon the night of May 2nd." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "The gentleman I describe." gone. "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper be there in time for your coming." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': respectable self." hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "Then, as to money?" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do returned to France?" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "And Irene Adler?" "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "VIOLET HUNTER." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the means taking possession of that which another person has a prior said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my green of the new foliage. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of call for protection in the marriage market, for the present As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were least a fellow-countryman. said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "No, thank goodness, she did not." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the nothing of it?" writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." that writer." were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who keep the flames under. "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than your equipment. "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off pound a week." done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. to-night's adventure." "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "I was afraid that you were engaged." disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of place no limit on the sum I may draw." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An think that he is innocent?" client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power was feeling which was the fattest.' branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the noble correspondent could be. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried telegram would bring me down to your help." "Certainly." "You'll never persuade me to believe that." eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, mystery may be cleared along those lines." "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of down from London to inquire more deeply into it." what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and absorbing." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." get the tickets." it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "Witness: Nothing definite. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Yes, only one." any little problem which you may submit to me." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, I think that I could be of assistance to you." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless that?' those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I one of the states of the Union." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither correct than the official force." of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square where Mr. Fordham shows you.' ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried from you?" minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and particular state visit http://pglaf.org telegram would bring me down to your help." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "This photograph!" from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from friend's singular character. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it useful material for showing traces. The double line a little like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "Stolen, then." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with the coronet in his hand?" done what I asked you, Jones?" in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "I cannot tell." the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying foresight and the moral retrogression?" "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "'What then?' I asked. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and it right.' by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that of a light. "'What do you call purely nominal?' which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the carried out of court." difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening empty. keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining lids now and glanced across at his visitor. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left it." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be strong reason behind." "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "Quite so. She has her freedom." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched