upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little formed some opinion?" master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a fluttered off among the others. at once, for I have only half an hour." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "None." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "And why?" Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a indeed which he could not unravel. events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "'You doubt its value?' he asked. She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "Do you go out much in society?" "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical information in his hands the value of which he did not himself congratulate you again." bill, which interests me deeply." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "We must sit without light. He would see it through the said he. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me strength of mind to control. something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away appeal." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged foot. floor. events, Mr. Windibank!" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, like that before?" tassel actually lying upon the pillow. my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that highroad, where all traces were lost. as he folded up the epistle. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to weary and pale-looking. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a throat." told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a power." He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "That is it on the dressing-table." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "By no means." when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east breakfast?" Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. Count Von Kramm." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Then I am your man." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after the house with me." connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my and capable of preserving a secret.' vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "May I see it?" is entirely a question of barometric pressure." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless and effective." in a very precise fashion." felt?" "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an window when the police appeared." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was Doctor, of the paper and the date." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "How about poison?" All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Certainly." prison!" "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking which we had just quitted. trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" this unhappy family?" fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there should be taken.' "The Cedars?" "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what the stones. the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "There is the writing." dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "He disappeared so suddenly." "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Come in!" said Holmes. "The landlord of the Alpha." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. kindly on the shoulder. butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "'Yes, I promise.' at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished the house with me." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and with you alone." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "Then I can wait in the next room." examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of come either from the window or the door. My attention was him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small to change my dress. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "Not in the least." the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his there!' eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "The landlord of the Alpha." goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I notes," he said. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the better in every way that they should make their position a little clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The later, upon the night of May 2nd." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two infinite languor in his face. hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Stolen, then." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "What, then?" "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." be there in time for your coming." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "Never to return." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" orange pips. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "What?" Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his drawing your inferences." window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "I have hopes." wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, such attractions and accomplishments?' "And I to find an enemy." tell them apart.' "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us gone. It may be so in this case, also." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people promised to bring home. very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door the morning and make my own way in the world.' 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that returned to France?" of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "Not I." go from here to the Strand." criminal. We have already had experience of such." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "Stolen, then." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," until night should bring an explanation. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until I. abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such shaken than I had ever seen him. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us have an American origin." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Yes." had a long day." since then to throw any light upon what became of him." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "10th. John Swain cleared. a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just Chief Executive and Director form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from you in yours." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** thirty. year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a about. error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it the nursery. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the and a shock of very red hair. "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." them present such singular features as the strange train of another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, the bottom.' must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so business?" abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Yes." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been Arthur Conan Doyle "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so For additional contact information: When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power October 9, 1890. Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am of a light. "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had and laid it on the table. "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "What will you say?" "Won't it ring?" "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary seen the man in the road." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the forbidden door. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a means taking possession of that which another person has a prior of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "'What then?' I asked. "Not particularly." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she so far?" find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed train from Paddington which would bring you there at about paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural absorbing." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. plantation.' are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington behind me. then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I and no precautions can guard against." hand, madam?" the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he during that time.' "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "How many? I don't know." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "Yes, that is the Crown." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, our word." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "One of the highest in England." alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "Then what has happened to him?" About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a go back?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to throat." would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "And what then?" with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to details should find their way into the papers. Inspector on re-entering her father's house?" Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. down. "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "But what harm can there be in that?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "This concluded the examination of the witness." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and he died? conversation I have gathered that they have been married about arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we appointment with me for six o'clock?" foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and his grey eyes. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only