the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him kindly on the shoulder. "I never have." the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "Do you know him?" to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself business?" "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was strength of mind to control. direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "'Then let me do so?' "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' indeed happy." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "The knees of his trousers." high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed delirious. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The a very grave face. what do you think they found in the pockets?" was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror said he at last. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior case before our client came into the room." metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone waste of energy." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be Eyford." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the the coronet in his hand?" yet." a suggestive one." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "It was a confession," I ejaculated. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "Was there a secret marriage?" Doctor, of the paper and the date." round with crates and massive boxes. thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our not, dad?" she asked. in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, other lovers by making love himself." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided lost nothing by them." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have case before our client came into the room." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' advice." a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the detained." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the spare." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "She will not sell." contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to were new raised from a basin. formed some opinion?" particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a key of the affair now." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "Yes." forecastle of an emigrant ship. he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the and looked back. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A ourselves in the office." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "And now?" He raised his hand. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom me where it went to?" say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until must be when I saw the door open.' "Certainly, madam." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Of what?" retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, astonishment. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's Sholtos." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that him. reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "Not particularly." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little cigars in the box." Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "She showed me, as I told you she would." naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It washing it down with a long draught of water. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with as he folded up the epistle. standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar out." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "May I see it?" delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "Then how many are there?" http://www.gutenberg.net which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "I think that it is very probable." here and I will read it to you: slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "I say it is." lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "She walked into the breakfast-room." of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually pressing in one house as in another. head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned true." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "It is no ordinary one." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm considering the formidable letters which were received by himself very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any miles off. "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a as yours." as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one article?" "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the call for it in person on Monday morning.' who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." developed." nothing of it?" a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have help us in this matter." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "That is unusual in a young girl." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "No." walking." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "Where to?" forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he Have you good authority for what you say?" greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him towards the blaze. brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to case before our client came into the room." and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in society." glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. society." "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "Did he not advertise?" "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of voice, changing her seat as requested. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, garden below. bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the copied or distributed: snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the is a common subject for conversation. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked woven round him. tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "Just look it up, then." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with his cane at the bell-pull. at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout Project Gutenberg-tm works. the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two I nodded to show that I had heard. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "And I to find an enemy." children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "'Which dealer's?' doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her enter Dr. Roylott's room." impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little will take you up to see the machine.' here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, ventilator." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are that the gas is not laid on in his house?" Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "That is it on the dressing-table." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "Because he was handy and would come cheap." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am was not a bird to be seen there. "You have a clue?" Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "Dark enough and sinister enough." nice household for a young lady." "I shall most certainly do so." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a redistribution. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one mystery." The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "The murder was done with it." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are posted to-day." had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, beyond words. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the presented which may be striking and bizarre without being Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "The knees of his trousers." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be danger is over." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and within hail.' test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush than was visible to me." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague companion quietly. province." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "You are hungry," I remarked. them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about possible that we could bring him back to her? me upon any point which I do not make clear." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "What I expected to see." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "Her father is very rich?" "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "You horrify me." Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the humiliation." of the vacancies.' me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "I cannot think." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "Quite so. She has her freedom." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was that the gas is not laid on in his house?" was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "'Is purely nominal.' Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm redistribution. upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he bachelor.' change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "But she could not love him." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "But your client--" whatever might befall. air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced row." branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "No, but the enclosure is." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they there." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "How many? I don't know." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the call for it in person on Monday morning.' shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? and that he would see to anything that turned up. "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "And now?" I asked. away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "'Is purely nominal.' complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "Ten will be early enough." "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire