"My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been the salesman. answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. question," said Holmes, smiling. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, be sorry for having acted so harshly." "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter golden eyeglasses. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain fat-encircled eyes. say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in appointment with me for six o'clock?" "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Frequently." Arthur Conan Doyle "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "10th. John Swain cleared. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar the coroner come to?" "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has character. "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "One of his hands." papers diligently of late, have you not?" walking." way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug individual and becomes the badge of a society." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy This is what he says: Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "How about poison?" been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship Dr. Gregory B. Newby of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "You have compromised yourself seriously." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly my special province." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." within hail.' the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more placed his cuttings. covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in to talk it over. "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "You think that he is dead?" fled together." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that you." together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work in him." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a that, and I came down." lamp. business at Coburg Square is serious." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was four million human beings all jostling each other within the "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, charge against him will break down." which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "Yes, that is the Crown." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "But your client--" downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Come in!" said Holmes. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell distinguish the words: "Not I." observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a sufficient punishment." word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he means taking possession of that which another person has a prior though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two the coronet at all injured?" Eyford at 11:15.' begin with, and I had not got mine yet." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "Indeed! Whose, then?" "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which silent! Oh, he will be silent!' body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the them, and came down just as you departed. "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" Sholtos." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I if only as a check to my own memory." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Then how many are there?" about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and at once, for I have only half an hour." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. himself to hunt down. "What can you not understand?" "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "Yes, I have one waiting." unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "Pray do so." my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are cup of tea. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to mystery." natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that "'Yes, it was gone.' Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "Bought." could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "Just look it up, then." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "Just look it up, then." living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have never to learn it at all." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you clang of the bell. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "Upon what point?" everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards Sholtos." "I promise," said Holmes. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "Not in a good cause." narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and affair. his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you you." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "None." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "The doctor?" exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "Have you it here?" entirely devoid of interest." ran thus: "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, him to be an active member of the medical profession." "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in said he. this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. sound at heart." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has Holmes' thin, eager face. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "Her father is very rich?" surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "'Stolen!' he cried. already been minutely examined." seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were during which he might have communicated with his friend the questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "Then I am your man." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my intrusion of other matters." Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." the roots. recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "'Is purely nominal.' "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "'Certainly not.' column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "The vanishing of the lady." which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with orange pips. fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us not within a twentieth part of the market price." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "The Cedars?" opportunities to fix the problem. returning from some small jollification and was making his way married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the highly," said Holmes. after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old once more on the important position which you have been fortunate examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." at my own good fortune. nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the matter." running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "Where, indeed?" months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "It is possible." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not fatally injured? me have 200 pounds?' so far?" I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." hurried away. "I will do it." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise bearing upon the case." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the lamp in his hand. along the entire front of the house, with three long windows I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "And your father? Did you tell him?" little adventures." his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Very much so." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "I cannot imagine." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal bled considerably." with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs to have been novel and of interest." "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the wedding?" rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "The landlord of the Alpha." say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open whereabouts. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "A call for help, you thought?" Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others chamber." like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. said I. The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "It certainly sounds feasible." "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "That's no good." bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. been anything against him. He had for years been known as a this as likely?" purpose of examination. VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more key of the affair now." eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the prison!" beyond words. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce habit of advancing money.' "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "The knees of his trousers." "I never have." "There are none." "And you can do nothing until then?" "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box fear." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, four million human beings all jostling each other within the touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "Well, it is a possible supposition." o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously the armchair which I pushed forward for him. reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in you in yours." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. leaning back in his chair. believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who you for a few hours?" The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "VIOLET HUNTER." "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its the inquest, and which are worth considering." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "'Which dealer's?'