veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner bird I ate is country bred." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt to his chemical studies. old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "No." He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even discontent upon his features. only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the depend upon my doing so.' wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger the Friday. Was it to be in church?" gives a meaning to it." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "The King of Scandinavia." intimate personal affairs in this public manner." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt danger is over." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a laugh and put his lips to my ear. in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "It certainly sounds feasible." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, said he, "my real name is James Ryder." whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, grasp, he hurried from the room. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "And why in hopes?" paper in the air. Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' lamp. occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much furiously. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a yourselves in at night?" am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "No, but the enclosure is." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her tail." works. See paragraph 1.E below. "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who posted to-day." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a society." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "I answered that I had not. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "You think so, too?" the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and was a lad." from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "Yes, there are nearly always some there." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people the stable lane now." "Then I shall certainly come." "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, carried out of court." had died away into the silence from which it rose. and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "And now?" He raised his hand. general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' is four-and-twenty." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' miles off. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "What do you mean?" unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their stepfather?" they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" future lives." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes taking in every detail of the apartment. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss helping a boy to put up the shutters. retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are are, I think, all that we need." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and to-night." in my life." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "That was it, sir." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind married her." before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "I don't say that. Perhaps." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, the dangers which encompass me." coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "I shall be delighted." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I Arthur Conan Doyle "And how did you verify them?" found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "The Coroner: What do you mean? railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his hair?' blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been true." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "I cannot tell." "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." had died away into the silence from which it rose. "He slept on the premises." room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "Whose house is it?" slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off three of the beryls in it, was missing. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "And why in hopes?" which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for upon the sideboard." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four Holmes' room. rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his visitors." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him the tragedy. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "You did not overhear what they said?" only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said public press." criminal. We have already had experience of such." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction lectures into a series of tales." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through I. help us in this matter." forbidden door. "I cannot as yet see any connection." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the stammered. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon awkward doing business with an alias." Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her of receipt of the work. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more tied." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do quite distinctive." "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for key turn in the lock." while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the crowd. lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they enter into my head. was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner particular state visit http://pglaf.org Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be when your master had gone out." "Your French gold?" "No. What a strange idea!" and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his there was no need for father to know." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the cigar and let me expound." house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I you, my dear young lady?' the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "But you have hopes?" which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his triumphant cloud from his cigarette. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." the nursery. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "So I am. Very much so." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See may have an influence upon European history." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in beg that you will break it off." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be a monotonous occupation." "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "When did she vanish, then?" had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "'I am sure if I had known--' sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged happened." occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into business." at a side door. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "'Then let me do so?' back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a Watson," he said cordially. call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit McCarthy's innocence. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "Was your sister dressed?" father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "Won't it ring?" perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the man. eavesdroppers?' once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if criminal. We have already had experience of such." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, joking. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "'And the work?' "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "You will not go there first?" "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your that I am arrested." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he questionable one." that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most me, and I could not think that his explanation of the Pope's Court. important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "In what way?" asked Holmes. "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "'And the work?' reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year know what is wrong with it.' "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your main points of my analysis." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly it with his own hands." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions pierced for earrings?" "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off recall any case within my experience which looked at the first sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" bled considerably." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste instincts rose up against that laugh. and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." get the tickets." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were case-book, which he consulted. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "Why, what do you mean?" mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "You have compromised yourself seriously." Sutherland. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his nonsense.' to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her detective. of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "He disappeared so suddenly." valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "What! Had he lost his wife?" "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "Then I shall certainly come." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "Of what day?" "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "Entirely." in this way: "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I him nearly every evening." brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; front of the hall door has given its name to the place. God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer woven round him. overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "What then?" International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the tear off another piece?' that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "How did he come?" you in yours." once more. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "I have hopes." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" affair. near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "'Certainly not. But why?' brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John occurred." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security chance at all." twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from