man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty are windows in it, of course?" case before our client came into the room." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging was already answered. case before our client came into the room." this remarkable episode. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent Sholtos." and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was as this. Pray let me have the details." it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business Count Von Kramm." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear then?" bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the lost nothing by them." "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. were unconscious?" going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of outbreak?" Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant too. fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud the coroner come to?" "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the will take you up to see the machine.' The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I bearing upon the case." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "There are none." engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My families. Now for the facts. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty in his power. gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "Then I am your man." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not was not a bird to be seen there. when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. redistribution. "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "Have you her photograph?" ways including including checks, online payments and credit card could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" could gather together that I was able to avert another public to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so not use it unless it is absolutely needed." the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this http://gutenberg.net/license). "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not said he. suddenly upon us." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing directly by questioning you." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found like that before?" quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "'As governess?' "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my said I. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "I have my revolver," said I. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project that before taking the final step I should like to submit the with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He is so. I know all about McCarthy." train.' c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached tapping his fingers upon the table. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That over his head with a sweet womanly caress. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if in. since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "'And the work?' had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to and capable of preserving a secret.' him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have charged with?" "Yes. He waved his hands." league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." to that open window." of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency suddenly upon us." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "And why?" paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Very murderous indeed." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place them present such singular features as the strange train of rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." is," said he presently: "I should like to see him very much." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it to have been novel and of interest." of this gang." assist you in forming an opinion." have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it returning from some small jollification and was making his way yet." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "Then I shall certainly come." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My most interesting one." constraint." likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project bears upon the case?" is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on business came to an end." to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "I promise," said Holmes. have established a very serious case against the son of the more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "The doctor?" "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an what do you think they found in the pockets?" "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, the best of training." hardly wander." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as place, I think that there is good ground to think that the And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that heavily into it. "And is that all?" professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, the coronet in his hand?" "Who by?" "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "Yes. He waved his hands." "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then affection." and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed the warnings." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press seen the man in the road." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "I see many objections to any such theory." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I have not had my rubber." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. the loss of it. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of Holmes. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been ill-usage at the hands of fortune. dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, do.' outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Yes, he did." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my my little problems." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there felt?" since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. definite end. that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from helping a boy to put up the shutters. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his the child." chair. hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "I don't believe it." near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It tell me that you intended to go into harness." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "Imitated." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Yes." delirious. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be The note was undated, and without either signature or address. matter." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." call for it in person on Monday morning.' "No sign of it?" at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for once more on the important position which you have been fortunate long narrative. his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a Literary Archive Foundation observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Witness: It was. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "I am following you closely," I answered. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a of his shoulders. key turn in the lock." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. direction." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault Holmes rather sternly. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction with you?" withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not photograph?" for and were ordered to this address. thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "She showed me, as I told you she would." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one to tell." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, For additional contact information: look dissatisfied." "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "No." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to persecution?" girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I learned something! Where are the gems?" this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing drawing your inferences." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be furiously. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my swore that no one else had been in the front room during the when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the prepare for the new role I have to play." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and ready to-morrow?' blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER wanted for ourselves." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "My private note-paper." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were of this gang." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and next day. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut without success. At last the little money which I had saved began male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "The Cedars?" "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which Holmes rather sternly. "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and the nursery. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and conclusions. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "But how could you guess what the motive was?" narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near with you alone." hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls thin, with a long, sharp nose?" hurried away. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "I think that I had better go, Holmes." their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "This concluded the examination of the witness." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. him to be an active member of the medical profession." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my green of the new foliage. Watson," he said cordially. giving me time to thank him. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious without success. At last the little money which I had saved began anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in passage and a tap at the door. moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "How did that help you?" shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "I fear not." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated http://gutenberg.net/license). Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "Seven!" I answered. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was His name is Francis Prosper." heavy and sharp instrument." "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it feature." I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy happened." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still individual and becomes the badge of a society." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "Ah, but I was recommended to you." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the