"Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "I think that I had better go, Holmes." garden below. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." ourselves in the office." soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and views." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his delirious. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" respectable self." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the fishes. might help us?" "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "How many? I don't know." "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked present strange and interesting features that it is no easy though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "She told me to ask you." "But how?" "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "'Yes, sir.' workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "No sign of it?" dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with his face which made him a very different person to the round, which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy promised to bring home. and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new second window is the one that I jumped from." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I was a lad." Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and hour." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in again." understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and front of me. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to go back?" "But your client--" "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was trifles." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "And how did you find out?" conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the name is different." drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that papers must be those that are destroyed.' first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the Mrs. Toller serenely. clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke returned to France?" settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "What do you make of that, Watson?" it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "But how did you gain them?" Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second happened." his face which made him a very different person to the round, "How can you tell that?" lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "That's no good." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "It is solved." from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and delighted to hear it," he said. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic not come at once?" he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. occurred." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them entirely devoid of interest." "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He our word." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "How many? I don't know." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "Ample." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I society." morning." Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "Then you may entirely rely on me." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, through." waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." to a light-house. the iron safe, which he closed upon it. woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of waste of energy." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "May I see it?" felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how you understand?" first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Not particularly." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "'What then?' I asked. his face which made him a very different person to the round, astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards least a most suspicious remark." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he the salesman. your bag." easy-going way." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual arrangements." one of them." charge against him will break down." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "Perhaps I have." problems help me to do so." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," cigars in their mouths. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "Really! You surprise me." was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "That sounds a little paradoxical." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." use an arc-and-compass breastpin." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' is entirely a question of barometric pressure." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a works. reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at man. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "Not social, then?" "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a answered with a sidelong glance. all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, believe that I should never have any practice at all. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "Do you know him?" Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your results." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another of receipt of the work. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "And sit in the dark?" the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" imbecility!" he cried. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort Cross for the Continent." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in had no one to advise her at such a crisis." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "And now?" I asked. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this this man was intellectual?" "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "Has he come with you to-night?" India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, was lame." have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks whatever might befall. "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said arrangements." The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "To ruin me." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A had this final quarrel? "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "I have my revolver," said I. too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds hair?' in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the Munro.' been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "Yes, from Horsham." from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the already referred to. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "'Tell me all about it,' said I. disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. learned something! Where are the gems?" anything to do with the matter?" authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the point our research must commence, and we will begin it by many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own electronic works "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must followed. of the vacancies.' that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle the roots. the child." accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "My last client of the sort was a king." "Where, then?" jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Never." "Your sister is dead, then?" "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in chill to my heart. explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. from you?" "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just lumber-room." ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is character. any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of sit on the left-hand side of the driver." doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "No more words. Get out!" been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was himself. "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "I cannot tell." of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "I am all attention, madam." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the congratulate you again." to talk it over. "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." which our visitor detailed to us. "What! a murderous attack?" from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making neither fascinating nor artistic." England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing when you have done it." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to of." off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "'Certainly not.' eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the been with you?" the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK upon an income of about 60 pounds." last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "And why?" eat it." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "'And the work?' perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull lips." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of Street. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed photograph a cabinet?" that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an into her hand at the door and which lured her within their strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in room. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the retorted upon me, and I on you." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this business in the City. She little knew what. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar Holmes rather sternly. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my business matters.' and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who papers on the sundial.'" "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are to have been novel and of interest." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "He might." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to the best of training." of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "I cannot say that I have." "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "We must have a cab." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two three of the beryls in it, was missing. slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no attention." the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "And the murderer?" son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, subject to the trademark license, especially commercial it." confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges place no limit on the sum I may draw." to tell." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "The knees of his trousers." from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail,