amused." separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "Very. But will he see it?" manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "But we can't all be." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Not social, then?" jewels which you have stolen?' back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "My dear Holmes!" "Dark enough and sinister enough." But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight note?" the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them the coroner come to?" of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and case before our client came into the room." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "Imitated." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of dead, shall be safe with us." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that your Highness to the police-station?" the room while you explain this matter?" room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "Perhaps I have." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones presume?" predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from throat." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a his huge brown hands. "My photograph." father's place of business?" preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "It is to him that this trophy belongs." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "Do you know him?" Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as Does that suggest anything?" "Witness: Nothing definite. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon respectable self." The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." and effective." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "It's nothing of the kind." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "'Oh, no.' pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "'Certainly not. But why?' of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by the best of training." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing your sleep?' of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "Then, how do you know?" in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The of your young ladies.' wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." upon a handsome competence. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" she has been waylaid. There has been no result." returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "And how in the world did you find them?" With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in as noiselessly as she had come. directors, with the result that you have seen." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "Precisely." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "Yes, it was twisted." "I cannot think." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed careless servant girl?" may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "Who was the criminal, then?" There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "One horse?" interjected Holmes. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "I should wish to." your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off client, rising. at my own good fortune. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "Which are?" "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be affection." prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a thin legs towards the fire. would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was to surprise her." "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "So I am. Very much so." "At what time?" "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 results." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. roused himself from his reverie. questioning and rather startled gaze. with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in what do you think they found in the pockets?" entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or perplexity from it to my illustrious client. considering the formidable letters which were received by himself crackling voice. it? Did I buy the geese off you?" pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that in a friendly supper." had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "In which, sir?" "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short from you?" When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at tassel actually lying upon the pillow. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "I see no marks." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about quickly through a disagreeable task. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: handed it to him. "Nothing?" newspaper selections." jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" that I can to serve you." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "And you can do nothing until then?" Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "No more words. Get out!" beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which success. "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not did not hear it also.' lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in arrested. You then--" "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over more solid." lectures into a series of tales." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House call for it in person on Monday morning.' colonel looking down at me. was the fact that his father should, according to his account, be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." thin, with a long, sharp nose?" believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said some city in a dream. great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in down in his armchair and closing his eyes. band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could you in yours." his eyes and forehead. But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is address. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "I cannot tell." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "Yes." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the society." roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. other means.' "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because third from London." your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with to his chemical studies. little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the open." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "He said too much." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our to go into your room and bar your shutters?" and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say his grey eyes. "I will not look." "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "It is to him that this trophy belongs." chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "Why did you pick him?" "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the noble correspondent could be. him." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few his fortune, and I went back to pa. much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "What! You do not mean bodies?" over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place advice." appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the to have been novel and of interest." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in point in the dark hollow of his hand. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in cause to be." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I you." "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair cup of tea. derbies." once more for Briony Lodge. system of imprisonment?" "I have solved it." call the police, let the police find what they can.' access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "No, I am descending." coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, house for five minutes.' you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "I cannot as yet see any connection." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. His name is Francis Prosper." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and into the room. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure him." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' because she had spent so short a time in this country that she enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "'In my own bureau.' come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "Where, then?" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as and files of the old papers, following the future career of every distance from the station, and there we found the young lady Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "This photograph!" landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at business in the City. She little knew what. "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. maiden herself was most instructive." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Then the page we have seen--" absorbing." With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "'There is a drive, then?' "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how past. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would narrative." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess