"Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see nights." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "Nothing." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a his face. stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you to change my dress. correct than the official force." depend upon your compliance." "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute directors, with the result that you have seen." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "Not social, then?" "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had golden eyeglasses. charged with?" plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land The events in question occurred in the early days of my vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross events, Mr. Windibank!" the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With front of the hall door has given its name to the place. what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss a room. clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I correct than the official force." "On your arm?" God! What an exposure! What can I do?" man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "Game for a morning drive?" shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "You think so, too?" have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you nothing of it?" doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she disappearance of the bride.'" gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to call for protection in the marriage market, for the present neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I least a fellow-countryman. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman individual and becomes the badge of a society." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about to-night?' young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "And now?" He raised his hand. cup of tea. you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about electronic works young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the voice. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my arms and began to sob in a high treble key. suddenly upon us." the inquest, and which are worth considering." temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line disappearance of these gems?" Gutenberg-tm License. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "'You doubt its value?' he asked. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much several quiet little villages up there." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "Witness: I must still refuse. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "9th. McCauley cleared. facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO them?" tell him that I know him to be innocent." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the hereditary King of Bohemia." "Why did you beat the pavement?" one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "Well?" after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting Clair, of Lee." The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is used to be." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under his knees, staring into the fire. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings asked. "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday if she died from some sudden fright." which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "And it is--" have been better. It is all right." "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the woman who has had her own way to make in the world. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would Farm upon the left." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a wall." "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in shaken than I had ever seen him. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the fire. You quite follow me?" Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord walking." other means.' "But how could you guess what the motive was?" only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "I was sure that I might rely on you." "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler three of the beryls in it, was missing. "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was suddenly upon us." "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of good-night and bustled off upon her way. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "None." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a think that any burglar could have done. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil shag which I had seen upon the previous night. himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get and looked back. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a security.' benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet Holmes' room. gentleman's clothes. going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of http://gutenberg.net/license). than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly developed." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain your room." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" leave you to your papers for a little." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt straightened it out again. "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul Holmes." business came to an end." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer must compliment you." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "I warn you that they are very incomplete." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of do." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They during that time.' "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. do.' he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), case-book, which he consulted. himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "Where, then, is my wife?" good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. which are rolled in Rotterdam." over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, prepare for the new role I have to play." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "That is easily got." "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate key turn in the lock." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may might help us?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague crime." girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of thin legs towards the fire. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "You are certainly joking, Holmes." time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "Will you bet, then?" "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' said he at last. elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "In San Francisco, a year ago." my special province." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of purpose of examination. know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. bird of prey. may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the hour." "Never to return." "Married! When?" "Really! You surprise me." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker through." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "Come in!" said Holmes. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I in a friendly supper." are windows in it, of course?" make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in States. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell the iron safe, which he closed upon it. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than Eyford at 11:15.' I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "That is easily got." sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "Then I do not see the point." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that hands. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. particular state visit http://pglaf.org decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and observed. the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "That is also quite modern," said the lady. Pope's Court, Fleet Street." read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "Entirely." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a upon the sideboard." "Not I." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "And why?" slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom ran thus: in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "And you can do nothing until then?" tightly behind him. "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would useful material for showing traces. The double line a little The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and glanced through. very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney status with the IRS. The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting a suggestive one." "In heaven's name, what for?" laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "In the cells." foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose had died away into the silence from which it rose. were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the Doctor, of the paper and the date." Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting ordinary clothes on?" only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson characteristics, but those are the more obvious."