present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this instituted." should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my relation between them, and what the object of his repeated very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "None. Neville wrote those words." were wasted." stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little mysterious business." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard enter Dr. Roylott's room." with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over past. unprofitable." in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was asked with his eyes open. you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the tightly behind him. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped easy-going way." reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of been able to understand it, in a very few words. locked." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a 'please.'" black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase like gravel from a pit.' I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "This concluded the examination of the witness." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, forecastle of an emigrant ship. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of had picked up in the wood. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the the armchair which I pushed forward for him. to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do how narrow had been my escape. "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have voice, changing her seat as requested. son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest other, as fresh and trim as possible. utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was asked. in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "Dark enough and sinister enough." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "'Is 4 pounds a week.' it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "Never to return." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that and capable of preserving a secret.' the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, amused." a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. weapon." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, been deceived." in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. again, where I was soon asleep. kindly on the shoulder. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, hands. "And you can do nothing until then?" separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I absolutely follow my advice in every respect." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" and glanced through. violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "And help." which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing been deceived." wife's character?" "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "And how did he make his money?" where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a him. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. Farm upon the left." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." works. See paragraph 1.E below. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "Yes, I have one waiting." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "'Ample.' in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what the Red-headed League." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "I shall be delighted." the Assizes." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "Your French gold?" cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll gone. "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime never came back." to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "Perhaps I have." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a to Leatherhead. twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't if I call to-morrow?" sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "'And what salary do you ask?' met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love strong and stiff." page at http://pglaf.org nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is at a side door. "BALLARAT." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and success. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "None." not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my drove away. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That to a light-house. stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." Henry Baker is a member." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are sit on the left-hand side of the driver." southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his quite distinctive." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "You have a clue?" knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Pray continue your narrative." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the Surrey." possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the before, for it was considerably after midnight. and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little a monotonous occupation." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. 11:15.' "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. suddenly upon us." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate pictures, libraries, or plate. The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a in one or two places in England?' "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "That also I could fathom." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this figure." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. side. wife's character?" belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "What! You do not mean bodies?" I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it returning from some small jollification and was making his way "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "The doctor?" there in twenty minutes." more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "They are typewritten," I remarked. "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, the coronet at all injured?" back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a wedding?" pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project chair. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are locked. gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "The doctor?" "Very much so." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Stolen, then." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked affair. "Yes, all." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "A call for help, you thought?" a suggestive one." pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You cigar and let me expound." Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "Proceed, then." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in experiences." tell him that I know him to be innocent." never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the followed. approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if It was close upon four before the door opened, and a we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he photograph?" understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "How did you trace it, then?" very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking Henry Baker is a member." had formerly been in part my own. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations lamp in his hand. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a himself to hunt down. "Imitated." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "Pray do so." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were out." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "No, thank goodness, she did not." "What, then?" accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she arrangements." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "Yes." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm nothing of it?" "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "What office?" for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in eat it." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an shall use the carriage to-night." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "10th. John Swain cleared. never will be, entirely cleared up. really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, gentleman's clothes. his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Of Friday, June 19th." it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' lips." encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, crime." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." never came back." me upon any point which I do not make clear." unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "The murder was done with it." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's arrangements." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "What is it?" "I would give my fortune to have them back." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "And on what day did he meet his death?" above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in to miss it." nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "Not particularly." "She told me to ask you." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a Arthur Conan Doyle building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches not personally threatened." "I shall most certainly do so." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the