to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "In which, sir?" Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "You have a clue?" had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon she might be summoned. and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the would apply.' the little opening for the ventilator is." arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "How did you trace it, then?" night.' said he. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with Holmes' face clouded over. the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady believe that I should never have any practice at all. "A confidential servant?" treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the highly," said Holmes. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our golden eyeglasses. you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which is entirely a question of barometric pressure." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "Not particularly." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little criminal. We have already had experience of such." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." I think that I could be of assistance to you." it." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to writers could invent nothing more crude." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I goes." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be chemical work which was so dear to him. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before British peeress.'" grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "'There is a drive, then?' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in you found me to-night--and running through the front room she violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But least a fellow-countryman. "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without and I shall be with you presently." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention was a lad." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "Why did you pick him?" every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman companion imperturbably. counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "They are typewritten," I remarked. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who likely to be some crony of the landlady's." return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. putting in the horse. son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "How are you getting on?" King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Then you may be so with me." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "Well, it is a possible supposition." because she had spent so short a time in this country that she this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "'Then let me do so?' Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "I am armed." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "And you don't know his address?" complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching dramatic, in fact." "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "My photograph." have an American origin." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do which I could not give. He asked for Alice. remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the retorted upon me, and I on you." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Witness: Nothing definite. them?" without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "Yes, the wine-cellar." Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' foresight and the moral retrogression?" was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall heavy and sharp instrument." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." even of instruction." "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing License. You must require such a user to return or until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had Does that suggest anything?" "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "You have the photograph?" naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It strength of mind to control. such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which remarked. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as a very grave face. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "And I." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 questionable one." shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their night.' said he. "Always." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "An enemy?" question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two noise which awoke you from your sleep?" Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "How did you deduce the select?" "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "I am in hopes that she does." at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then on re-entering her father's house?" such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "And on what day did he meet his death?" very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after back alive. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and Where does the thing come from?' afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "And what did you see?" call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six into the bag, and made for the door. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "'I shall certainly be there.' of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "Well, some hundreds of times." which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That voice. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this what do you think they found in the pockets?" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise is a common subject for conversation. too. be. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. considering the formidable letters which were received by himself the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' tied." the inner apartment." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It paper in the air. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "ARAT," I read. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my it. "And how?" back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His this man was intellectual?" must be when I saw the door open.' "No legal papers or certificates?" "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither http://www.gutenberg.net window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "I would pay ten." clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. cigar and let me expound." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a tightly behind him. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." your Highness to the police-station?" Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in vault. for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "That is unusual in a young girl." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there with the outside air!" "I promise," said Holmes. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "On the contrary, this is the right side." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you himself to hunt down. which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "What of the rat, then?" gbnewby@pglaf.org importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked everything which you would wish to know." "I see no marks." call it cruel." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular power." delighted to hear it," he said. done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were triumphant cloud from his cigarette. as he remarks, very much against the son." "Yes, at the mines." refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to individual and becomes the badge of a society." have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to absorbing." chill to my heart. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "Yes." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "And on what day did he meet his death?" seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend in darkness. "No, finished." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. there." directors, with the result that you have seen." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously his fortune, and I went back to pa. "Very much so." union?" investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I You can understand that this register and diary may implicate is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I with frightened eyes at his accuser. he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "And why?" providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be particular state visit http://pglaf.org bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the already referred to. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "Yes." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "Oh, the cause is excellent!" really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "Where, then?" "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought Holmes' room. the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." but preventing her from injuring another. moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return joking. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me galvanised. trifles." "None." took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "'Entirely.' you give your casting vote to?" During two years I have had three consultations and one small cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's shall use the carriage to-night." detective. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled matter." "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have,