"Yes." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "No, thank goodness, she did not." goes." bedroom door." firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that your co-operation." separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing your Highness to the police-station?" "Indeed! Whose, then?" I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "I came to find a friend." "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "No good news?" "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. the address that was given us in the advertisement. What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him clang of the bell. Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges the devil!" waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long indiscretion." "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my little trying to do so much typewriting?" felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "Nor running a chance of arrest?" the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the the best of training." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Nearly eleven." chair. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." subject to the trademark license, especially commercial entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Of what?" education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "'A dozen yards or so.' soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "I shall be delighted." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what to arrive at through this?" money should be paid at once.' treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. 1.F. "Stolen." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "A client, then?" commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these you in your example." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of seen the man in the road." is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson photograph?" drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "I don't believe it." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, touch that coronet?' man. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you maiden herself was most instructive." Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "I fear not." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable not fit the lock." "'It is locked up,' I answered. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else You want to know what became of those geese?" "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you to some other building. from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked writers could invent nothing more crude." I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," plantation.' married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange said he. pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and most important business. It is probable that he will be away all a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your them, and came down just as you departed. "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who astonishment. astonishment. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be this unhappy family?" wedding?" for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his Holmes rather sternly. someone who had been in Australia." back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he of his shoulders. better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "'What, the red-headed man?' at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "It is no ordinary one." "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in intrusion of other matters." "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little out of this horrible affair." of Fenchurch Street." "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge sit on the left-hand side of the driver." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "Just look it up, then." fat-encircled eyes. broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to annoyance, but no jest. Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "Nor running a chance of arrest?" was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my to his chemical studies. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for digesting their breakfasts at home." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout tell me that you intended to go into harness." Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "That is also quite modern," said the lady. shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" he died? little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "My dear Holmes!" This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall go--none." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and at a side door. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. will find little credit to be gained out of this case." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be which are rolled in Rotterdam." impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "Very much so." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my such attractions and accomplishments?' the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your writer." all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "If I can be of use." "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. what is your own theory as to what took place?" possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "How do you know, then?" "What!" he roared. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship such person." salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you purpose of examination. will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during everything which you would wish to know." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly leaning back in his chair. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in without a word or a look. corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would London for the present?" "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "Nearly eleven." I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting mysterious end." "Perhaps I have." somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without one's self under obligations.' "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "That's no good." "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found important." Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson will take you up to see the machine.' of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "What I expected to see." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "And help." have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, intimate personal affairs in this public manner." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little when your master had gone out." most interesting one." "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I situation." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, way in everything. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always hereditary King of Bohemia." hardly wander." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs to-morrow." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as him and tried to hold him back. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "You have a clue?" offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted Leave Paddington by the 11:15." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. ran thus: Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "So I heard. You have him here?" entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time my little problems." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side was it brought him the coronet? white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the occurred." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence rose-bushes. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year Eyford." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days photograph?" Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "To ruin me." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was your own bird, so if you wish--" was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Won't it ring?" to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. such person." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at be. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "When did it break out?" "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "No, finished." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "Perhaps we may make them less so." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "Thank you. And your address?" upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Is he quiet?" "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." copied or distributed: heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up results." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees chamber." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was strange features which were associated with the two crimes which the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "So I am. Very much so." were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom Lestrade of Scotland Yard." at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that The summons was a brief and urgent one. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, I held the little printed slip to the light. "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I "Why did you beat the pavement?" father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with some city in a dream. newspaper selections." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right