visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. country, and eventually married, without anyone having a What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "Yes, it was twisted." sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to his eyes and forehead. here." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "Where is it, then?" the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" thin legs towards the fire. disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit my secret was safe in his possession. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming father's young wife. plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to cup of tea. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss four million human beings all jostling each other within the "I am in hopes that she does." already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly you in yours." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "I would give my fortune to have them back." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it James Windibank. Voilà tout!" been shamefully used." "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in round and wave him away like that.' somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "Ample." flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, flock.' hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "Has he come with you to-night?" mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers colour had been driven from his face. exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself from the brougham. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "He said that you could solve anything." "No, distinctly professional." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "I don't say that. Perhaps." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my hard-headed British jury." "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and works. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "The vanishing of the lady." even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "That's no good." photograph?" soul! here is her carriage at the door." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would figure." justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and passage and a tap at the door. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and wedding?" money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "In the cells." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest wedding?" hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that might help us?" he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will thin, with a long, sharp nose?" way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of I was concerned in it." this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "But you were on a friendly footing?" a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several purpose of examination. fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his hard-headed British jury." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "Yes?" vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the should be taken.' He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have works. cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the is worth.' his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "Tired-looking or fresh?" His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite the devil!" it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "No." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Upon what point?" The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting furiously. name is different." "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "How did he come?" idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the burst into a hearty fit of laughter. your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left something of him before." "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "I don't say that. Perhaps." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As province." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty that the gas is not laid on in his house?" determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "My dear Holmes!" august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "'Why that?' I asks. blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers where she found matters as described by the last witness. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink their singular warning or token before them when starting upon compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "Yes. He waved his hands." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Look there!" said he. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "I cannot as yet see any connection." the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great what these perils are?" Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "Stolen." such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of II. alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project happened." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "But how?" appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a case-book, which he consulted. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the kindly on the shoulder. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in that he will be back before evening." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little business." it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his I nodded again. side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the with frightened eyes at his accuser. "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled which I could not give. He asked for Alice. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for on in his house." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She undoubtedly my uncle's." "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his is acting for the best. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which Dr. Gregory B. Newby in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "At what time?" quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and Leadenhall Street--and--" "'Yes, sir.' in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "Because he was handy and would come cheap." still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I of the one which your family is now devouring." answered with a sidelong glance. "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "'I am sure if I had known--' world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, writers could invent nothing more crude." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "I would pay ten." the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "No good news?" "He slept on the premises." noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "Well." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little chance." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" him and tried to hold him back. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is held up the lantern and gazed about him. calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length over with notes and figures. For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "No sign of it?" of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a new duties?' took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "Pray tell us what has happened to you." America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, late!' behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first eavesdroppers?' "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of without a word or a look. confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. The telegram which we eventually received came late one night paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "'Certainly not. But why?' like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." orange pips. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "I am still in the dark." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "Yes, sir." my room." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "That was it, sir." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of horse could go." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "I am following you closely," I answered. and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "Bought." problems help me to do so." as he folded up the epistle. 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the papers diligently of late, have you not?" "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "In which, sir?" "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, that the gas is not laid on in his house?" succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my forebodings. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "None." ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not he bowed and left the room without another word. round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "No more words. Get out!" winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted something of him before." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. the bed, and you in that chair." moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was me what he had done with the three missing stones. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification bill, which interests me deeply." of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "To ruin me." On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "Never." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must your sleep?' "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to used to be." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "My private note-paper." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. good-night and bustled off upon her way. "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first stalked out of the room. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. papers on the sundial.'" "Ha! you find it so?" "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr.