through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon your room." window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the "But your client--" "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are forecastle of an emigrant ship. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the sooner or later she must fall a victim. shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and a suggestive one." brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there McCarthy's innocence. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "But he might be a bachelor." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "It is very kind of you." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business coroner's jury." his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Upon what point?" a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found him. the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. might help us?" Holmes' room. any." "Then I do not see the point." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "Then he might have called to you?" present." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. letters?" All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in his forehead." is four-and-twenty." him and tried to hold him back. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not was feeling which was the fattest.' "'Ample.' might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who which we had just quitted. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I is entirely a question of barometric pressure." carpenter." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to the general public were present, then?" "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. hopeless attempt at recovering them." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the washing it down with a long draught of water. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for companion quietly. thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me as the one I chose?' back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble following enigmatical notices: discontent upon his features. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "When did it break out?" from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no better grown goose." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a The police have openly confessed that they can at present make the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the green of the new foliage. "And why?" beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "A client, then?" we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "None." crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "Pray do so." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more go--none." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. taking in every detail of the apartment. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate begun to whiten, even as mine has." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had she used." address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible From what you have told me I think that it is possible that to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes 1.F. The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each she used." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the enough to aid us in our search." be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to ways including including checks, online payments and credit card The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the bill, which interests me deeply." enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't young Openshaw's." "The gentleman I describe." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "Dark enough and sinister enough." James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. be sorry for having acted so harshly." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and that I am arrested." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." these bleak autumnal evenings." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "No, thank goodness, she did not." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a written, and locked the door of the office after me. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his at once, for I have only half an hour." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax was feeling which was the fattest.' moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed with her." of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, forecastle of an emigrant ship. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "But how did you gain them?" The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her weighed down with some great anxiety. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him did not hear it also.' asked. "It is his hat." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case away to you." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "I have my revolver," said I. putting in the horse. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "But who is he?" who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote of this gang." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "Now, then, what's the last entry?" lamp. work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence letters?" hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. goes." it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "None." Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with of Fenchurch Street." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the the Friday. Was it to be in church?" stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an murdered man." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "Then I am your man." on in his house." presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. stalked out of the room. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good lamp. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon him!" which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "Is he quiet?" room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it get her out of the way." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "Nothing." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his breakfast." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He morning." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "The murder was done with it." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it what do you think they found in the pockets?" "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled are windows in it, of course?" of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his during the last few years, and there are many noble families to within hail.' in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "In which, sir?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." thought that she would have been so carried away." through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "Yes?" the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Not yet." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for indeed which he could not unravel. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "By no means." without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "No good news?" sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry as noiselessly as she had come. "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" that he will be back before evening." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any characteristics, but those are the more obvious." in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I matters immensely." a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "Yes, all." his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove noble correspondent could be. rooms." pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR of Fenchurch Street." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its indeed happy." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "Yes." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' maiden herself was most instructive." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I of his shoulders. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to knowledge of the world." power." "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "On Monday." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but You can understand that this register and diary may implicate Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he must be when I saw the door open.' "Yes, they were peculiar boots." word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this bird I ate is country bred." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was chill to my heart. that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must he. "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and distance from the station, and there we found the young lady it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "Then I can wait in the next room." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "Yes?" hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back particular state visit http://pglaf.org "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "Did you become engaged then?" pity, because in other respects you would really have done very foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I been with you?" grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Then how many are there?" "I should wish to." letters?" "I beg pardon." my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the said he. "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" of campaign. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, events than those which have happened in my own family." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. bearing upon the case." "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "By no means." suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "In which, sir?" The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I was a perfect sample of the class. "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my too. sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I fasten all the windows?" "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, outside." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "Come in!" said Holmes. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where Have you good authority for what you say?" between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, noble correspondent could be. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "So it appears." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point views." "And I." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out begun to whiten, even as mine has." "And why in hopes?" lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in morning." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set persecution?" while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, dead, shall be safe with us." sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "Never." "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not spare." when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "To an end?" Sutherland?" "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "No. What a strange idea!" case-book, which he consulted. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously hair?' either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter ran thus: "The best possible." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to delighted to hear it," he said. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best money should be paid at once.' point in the dark hollow of his hand. "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. throat." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and chill to my heart. "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "Not particularly." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and congenial hunt. the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then and capable of preserving a secret.' was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "Then, as to money?" Miss Holder?" rooms." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them