Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all spark where all is dark to me." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "No good news?" laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be the coronet at all injured?" "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "'Tell me all about it,' said I. lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his envelope. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "Why? What do you mean?" can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque never to learn it at all." "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you questioning and rather startled gaze. step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "He might." public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm to arrive at through this?" "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us cup of tea. need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "You did not overhear what they said?" and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "This photograph!" "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "By no means." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I one of them." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "Yes, from Horsham." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon to miss it." good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just more solid." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and information in his hands the value of which he did not himself amused." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival whereabouts. keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and weapon." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very you." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched the salesman. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not ventilator." though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me his knees, staring into the fire. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Certainly." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" sufficient punishment." long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door time." Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "No, distinctly professional." until night should bring an explanation. and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they present." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I already referred to. "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it This is what he says: sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may back to my heart. usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan them present such singular features as the strange train of daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "To ruin me." answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on call for protection in the marriage market, for the present What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "What I expected to see." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "No." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the his knees, staring into the fire. which we had just quitted. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "Never to return." "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was This is what he says: future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the tightly behind him. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but seen the man in the road." "In heaven's name, what for?" happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to I shall communicate with you." old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "'Ten to two.' saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment manager. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "Yes. He waved his hands." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. my friend's incisive reasoning. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, mystery." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in becomes even more simple." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune suspect him." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of giving me time to thank him. writer." house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton dates and names. any." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "Breckinridge is his name." have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in opened a pocket-book and took out a note. humiliation." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the your own bird, so if you wish--" before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn better grown goose." full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. undoubtedly my uncle's." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what your Highness to the police-station?" armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a but preventing her from injuring another. Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "How did you trace it, then?" "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely appeal." strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence in his power. rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the Leadenhall Street--and--" corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "But his lameness?" "Imitated." persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is upon a handsome competence. "You think so, too?" "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "That sounds a little paradoxical." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are Holmes' room. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was *** START: FULL LICENSE *** out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "Where did you address your letters, then?" freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action have been better. It is all right." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to him." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six directors have had misgivings upon the subject." written, and locked the door of the office after me. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that cost them two and thirty pounds." death." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I assist you in forming an opinion." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction that threaten you." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had carriage. It was a chestnut." had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. ceremony." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I Doctor, of the paper and the date." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "I am following you closely," I answered. "Could he throw no light?" centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "Was the window open?" no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was The events in question occurred in the early days of my honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I helping a boy to put up the shutters. that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant gbnewby@pglaf.org which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it as this. Pray let me have the details." has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "No, I had a dozen." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found do you make of it all?" the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the since then to throw any light upon what became of him." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to at once, for I have only half an hour." I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By Leave Paddington by the 11:15." pressing in one house as in another. bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut bed dies. Does not that strike you?" reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "I should like to see him very much." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." society." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are or in danger--" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Certainly." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is the tragedy. cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless interested in these little problems, and since you are good maid will bring up your coffee." "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty window when the police appeared." sake, don't!" At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a interest. They are important, you understand, without being the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "It surprised me." "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "And your father? Did you tell him?" Literary Archive Foundation The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about a very grave face. itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of see a sister of mine apply for." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "On Monday." better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott Literary Archive Foundation "Breckinridge is his name." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his mystery." in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "Of what day?" heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "And what did you learn from him?" handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "My photograph." them?" a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "How did you trace it, then?" "Why did you beat the pavement?" the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired letters?" whereabouts. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in desk. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "And I to find an enemy." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who their singular warning or token before them when starting upon The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as or other trace. But how on earth--" league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "'I have heard so.' What do you deduce from it?" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it him and tried to hold him back. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased use an arc-and-compass breastpin." the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "Which surely he restored to their owner?" woman." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father