do." right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "Proceed, then." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can strong reason behind." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten ways of our fellow-men." are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with look dissatisfied." overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace young Openshaw's." instincts rose up against that laugh. in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those business." "Stoke Moran?" said he. then?" "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was paper in the air. child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! your troubles." "You are all wrong." should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' up this clue while it is still hot." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with of them has the shutters up.' heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "You saw the ventilator, too?" "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and intrusion of other matters." Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside burst into a hearty fit of laughter. for its centre. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, me what he had done with the three missing stones. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and that I can to serve you." stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "None. Neville wrote those words." "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "And Miss Sutherland?" took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her into her hand at the door and which lured her within their she has been waylaid. There has been no result." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going nice household for a young lady." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. morning." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "You were travelling in the States?" "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked because she had spent so short a time in this country that she shaken than I had ever seen him. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, galvanised. were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save once more on the important position which you have been fortunate very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "'Certainly not.' suspect him." are windows in it, of course?" England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice article?" "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable me have 200 pounds?' fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in photograph a cabinet?" observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. one of the states of the Union." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had recall any case within my experience which looked at the first were unconscious?" myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of tassel actually lying upon the pillow. zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "'Then let me do so?' envelope. will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "I think it very unlikely." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "And it is--" of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of thin, with a long, sharp nose?" was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "I cannot think." withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want works. See paragraph 1.E below. "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Really! You surprise me." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "Will you bet, then?" sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all some terrible trap for her." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet electronic works "By no means." "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I few hundred pounds.' were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "Has he come with you to-night?" gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons stood on the top of it. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "'Ten to two.' "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes been anything against him. He had for years been known as a You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "'Most admirably.' solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his must compliment you." upon the shelf for the interim." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't frequently gained my first real insight into the character of whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "Pray be precise as to details," said he. my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "I say that I have solved it." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "Nothing?" glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other garden below. quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to kind enough to tell me what I should do." "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "Will you go?" "Yes, only one." array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "'And the work?' things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. in a friendly supper." eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "And the cigar-holder?" "'Never,' said I. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "'Quite sure, dad.' "One of his hands." "But you have hopes?" Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "By no means." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "Yes, at the mines." expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one recover the gem." details." When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other whether it answered to the description of any of their dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the that you saw all that I did." "'And the work?' corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "The Coroner: What do you mean? "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some there was no need for father to know." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my criminal. We have already had experience of such." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was back into the street. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a meant it for the best. some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as go back?" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right where we are going." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. man. must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth bedroom door." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I more terrible than the truth. "Where, then?" banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "A thing like a cleaver," said he. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." into the bag, and made for the door. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. kindly on the shoulder. puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the tell them apart.' to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Of Friday, June 19th." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Did you observe the colour?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a careless servant girl?" Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, only touch the interest." return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the and no precautions can guard against." "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from troubles have been weighing upon his mind. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "You will not go there first?" "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of delighted to hear it," he said. thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I opportunities to fix the problem. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you into the room. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "Witness: It was. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in your billet.' recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe and shall probably return to London by the evening train." knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Very much so." Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a down in his armchair and closing his eyes. person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "No, distinctly professional." in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double just called myself is not exactly my own." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." evidence," I remarked. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as interested in these little problems, and since you are good "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard upon the sideboard." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and the address that was given us in the advertisement. assist you in forming an opinion." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "But how will you look?" "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "So I heard. You have him here?" drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "This photograph!" idea. 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