with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "How did you deduce the select?" weighed down with some great anxiety. her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Was he the only applicant?" learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "She walked into the breakfast-room." reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the call the police, let the police find what they can.' the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Then I shall certainly come." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf which was all perfectly true. "What will you say?" human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "Where did he live, then?" it." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it the very morning of the wedding." "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to have had none more fantastic than this." chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "Yes, certainly." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is such person." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the entirely devoid of interest." had a long day." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the your room." very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all I shall communicate with you." sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "But you can know nothing of this?" "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "I will get her to show me." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose very peculiar words of the dying woman?" my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand even so self-evident a thing as that." which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "It missed him, then?" customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for business." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you strange features which were associated with the two crimes which minor matters until to-morrow." "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "That sounds a little paradoxical." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no that there was nothing in it, after all." "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the some terrible trap for her." cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "Absolutely?" if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking might help us?" greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I annoyance, but no jest. suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, criminal. We have already had experience of such." the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' as he folded up the epistle. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I cigar and let me expound." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss three fields round his house, and there he would take his acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic could not account in any way for the presence of the missing money should be paid at once.' blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "But you were on a friendly footing?" instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this acted in my house last night?" of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not strong reason behind." gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a him!" the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you existence." "And I to find an enemy." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "Nothing?" puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was be best to do. along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "'Certainly not. But why?' the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "Yes, it was twisted." public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the yourselves in at night?" man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to hurried away. each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "His face fell immediately. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "'Certainly,' I answered. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." criminal. We have already had experience of such." your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a she used." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "If I can be of use." dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely envelope. august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if begun to whiten, even as mine has." which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "Texas, I think." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are noble correspondent could be. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was which we had just quitted. "My Mary? Impossible!" no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to here and I will read it to you: we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "'It is locked up,' I answered. the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Never." depend upon your compliance." "It is very kind of you." platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "Holmes, the busybody!" "On the contrary, this is the right side." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the views." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the think, you have already met." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "But you were on a friendly footing?" brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind British peeress.'" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the she might be summoned. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "There is the writing." searched, without anything being found which could incriminate Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes Pope's Court. "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "It was an hour's good drive." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own had picked up in the wood. room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes copied or distributed: Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock trifles." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "Then the page we have seen--" "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say allusion to a rat. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the he. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first weapon." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than fashion which was peculiar to him. it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all singular points about the case. What did the police think of the it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with characteristics, but those are the more obvious." explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, intrusion of other matters." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our Young McCarthy must be got off, however." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who Where does the thing come from?' comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is compunction about shooting them down." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you over here." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I if only as a check to my own memory." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a obstinate." back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is in his power. Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "Very. But will he see it?" "There is the writing." test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been the coronet in his hand?" his face. done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. occupations.' my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face the best of training." the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." 11:15.' case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies and prosperity to your house. Good-night." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "I am sure." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "A confidential servant?" afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the careless servant girl?" property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "But she will refuse." "At the wedding breakfast." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the notes," he said. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. unprecedented a position." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason empty. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "What then?" It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's peculiar to him. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." hurried away. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 tell him that I know him to be innocent." wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first read over the extraordinary announcement. belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until that the gas is not laid on in his house?" once more to my work. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "A call for help, you thought?" nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the remarked. "Then, how do you know?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "'In my own bureau.' have accepted such a situation. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "'In my own bureau.' a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper burst into a hearty fit of laughter. married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, neither fascinating nor artistic." "How did he come?" people don't know." in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our dates and names. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of golden eyeglasses. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. as noiselessly as she had come. "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you and inquire as to the address." he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "What then?" "Indeed! Whose, then?" business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your you in your example." withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you money should be paid at once.' Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the depend upon your compliance." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said best detective that ever lived. and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they