the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an call the police, let the police find what they can.' "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." laugh and put his lips to my ear. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle up this clue while it is still hot." will take you up to see the machine.' sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "Married! When?" It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "How did you deduce the select?" Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing point in the dark hollow of his hand. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate locked. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark there in twenty minutes." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a will be renamed. occupations.' rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new as the one I chose?' toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed house for five minutes.' "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for if I call to-morrow?" "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, reach." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, bedroom door." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "That is not always so easy." "You forget that I know nothing about it." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from the one as in the other." "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was Stoke Moran." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "'Yes, sir.' "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, pictures, libraries, or plate. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "If I can be of use." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "Have you her photograph?" "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "'There is a drive, then?' I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that me. shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, already referred to. "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "Pray be precise as to details," said he. the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' breakfast and whispered something to her husband. this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "By no means." Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. instituted." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, voice, changing her seat as requested. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "Why did you beat the pavement?" the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "None." "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth possible that we could bring him back to her? not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's country, and eventually married, without anyone having a brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "Nothing." Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "It is his hat." importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you even of instruction." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might unclasping of his long thin hands. carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was again." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "You have a clue?" to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the him. friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, young Openshaw's." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was night.' said he. Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of taking in every detail of the apartment. in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. disturbance in my wife." him to be an active member of the medical profession." little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. you?' rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a your room." wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "But what harm can there be in that?" He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." made his money." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. asked. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of fluttered off among the others. "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "He slept on the premises." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he whole matter to your consideration." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few knowledge of the world." happened." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "You'll never persuade me to believe that." Farm upon the left." trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save fluttered off among the others. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled morning." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." crowd. in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "But your client--" "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "Yes." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so future lives." nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "And how did you verify them?" "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off the date of his supposed suicide." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the round with crates and massive boxes. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." upon a handsome competence. electronic works son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "Then, as to money?" You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a charge against him will break down." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, at home. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. children over to America with him, so that I found myself without the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. too. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first asked. gone. "'What are you doing there?' he asked. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but look upon these things in a different way." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "A client, then?" straighten it?" gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "I see many objections to any such theory." quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads business came to an end." dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free window when the police appeared." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to at my own good fortune. "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses their singular warning or token before them when starting upon lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "Oh, yes, easily." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I shall not find me ungrateful." my friend's incisive reasoning. knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "My photograph." deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to very peculiar words of the dying woman?" figure." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." must be when I saw the door open.' at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "How about poison?" "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during spare." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of But Holmes shook his head gravely. I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "'I am sure that I do not know.' "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by It may be so in this case, also." than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works take the flies, but not before." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "I promise," said Holmes. the window, rose as we entered. "At the wedding breakfast." "I don't believe it." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow morning." she to prove their authenticity?" could gather together that I was able to avert another public idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" It may be so in this case, also." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Dirty?" said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should even so self-evident a thing as that." aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it yet." "In heaven's name, what for?" think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ always that they were such commands as a lady might with feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the be. "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "I never have." really the only notable feature about the thing." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "My stepfather's business papers." deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the presented more singular features than that which was associated baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped society." have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, footfalls from the street. me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he locked." from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and forbidden door. The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "No, finished." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in I think that I could be of assistance to you." but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "What! You do not mean bodies?" very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "Texas, I think." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made of it with the greatest attention. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you directors have had misgivings upon the subject." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification papers." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what License. You must require such a user to return or that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would plantation.' long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "Will you bet, then?" beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't girl said." the bed, and you in that chair." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San man. wedding?" week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Have you her photograph?" thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and gone. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away long narrative. England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "And for present expenses?" heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. This is what he says: of campaign.