gigantic client. in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Seven!" I answered. some terrible trap for her." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "And how have you succeeded?" manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "May I see it?" rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must sentimental considerations in the background which would induce have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had fasten all the windows?" before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "I was mad--insane." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then child?' my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot writer." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary some terrible trap for her." Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the and inquire as to the address." wedding?" and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "Where is it, then?" round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "So I have heard." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa get the tickets." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Certainly, madam." from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire in his hands." "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side all?" "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Not yet." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations right! Sit down and let us talk it over." been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has should be so warm over such a trifle." the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge and that he would see to anything that turned up. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "But she will refuse." peculiar to him. as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "Certainly." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the You can understand that this register and diary may implicate Street. Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the ashen face. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, manager. "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," with her." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the fasten all the windows?" "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until room?" stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out and have this put in the evening papers." the matter?" list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of absorbing." "The knees of his trousers." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "If so, much may have happened between." "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He Eyford at 11:15.' without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB never will be, entirely cleared up. glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it hour." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not perplexity from it to my illustrious client. it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over call you and give you the chance." the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. unkempt, staring out at me. entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a to some other building. the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you crime." which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his the house with me." it were putty." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. papers on the sundial.'" before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. one's self under obligations.' I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have one." keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "So I am. Very much so." Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered a good hundred miles off by now." (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found Foundation remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Have you good authority for what you say?" see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "Never." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' said he at last. confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently have I gained?" "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as how narrow had been my escape. had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "But how will you look?" horse could go." fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth other, as fresh and trim as possible. "Why serious?" something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. opened the door, and slipped through. respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in crime. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. before, for it was considerably after midnight. constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. his face. shaken than I had ever seen him. them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is Farm upon the left." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "Look there!" said he. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "I am sure." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone had no one to advise her at such a crisis." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "Not particularly." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found less than 26s. 4d. "You are certainly joking, Holmes." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some assist you in forming an opinion." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one lamp in his hand. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the depend upon your compliance." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "It is to him that this trophy belongs." passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "Entirely." there is a decided draught." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "One horse?" interjected Holmes. step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his future lives." hardly wander." Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "But of what society?" pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial brandy and water within his reach. "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being detective. "But of what society?" body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "Yes." where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "That is easily got." the inquest, and which are worth considering." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check What do you deduce from it?" Eyford at 11:15.' "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they writers could invent nothing more crude." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "You have a clue?" bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "I don't say that. Perhaps." "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed James Windibank. Voilà tout!" on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "That is it on the dressing-table." I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of and it need not interfere very much with one's other reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "What! You do not mean bodies?" "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" constraint." interest. They are important, you understand, without being was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "'Never,' said I. how narrow had been my escape. silent! Oh, he will be silent!' loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "And that is--" long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have you." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very child?' caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened question. "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "He might." clanging. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have forbidden door. is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "So I heard. You have him here?" however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this investigation." erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of locked." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, locked." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither outsides of the windows. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your went to the Alpha were town bred." "A call for help, you thought?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check he bowed and left the room without another word. "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some galvanised. and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. had picked up in the wood. insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, despair." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been character. "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my not interfere, come what may. You understand?" be.' in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the the morning and make my own way in the world.' the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Gutenberg-tm License. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door asked with his eyes open. about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or views." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "I cannot think." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so chill to my heart. But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "Who was the criminal, then?" in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the in the hope of finding them." which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "Frequently." whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both II. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "But how could you guess what the motive was?" my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of an introduction to him?" woman." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "Were they all fastened this morning?" however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "On your arm?" very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "In San Francisco, a year ago." very morning of my second wedding." central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. nonsense.' making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised dear old homesteads?" have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "'Why that?' I asks. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and death." present." central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "But how?" Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under go--none." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, four million human beings all jostling each other within the you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of Heh?' grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had