as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a lost nothing by them." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "And when will you call?" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." gives a meaning to it." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "And the cigar-holder?" his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "Get out!" said he. was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "Yes, it would be as well." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable place no limit on the sum I may draw." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. made him keep the appointment." chill to my heart. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was off." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where breakfast?" "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the and inquire as to the address." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever new acquaintance to Baker Street. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was the bed, and you in that chair." and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "Well, some hundreds of times." fashion which was peculiar to him. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "I cannot tell." we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while and it need not interfere very much with one's other idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so me what he had done with the three missing stones. be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the Literary Archive Foundation "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "And how in the world did you find them?" imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "But how will you look?" of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I the nursery. wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." answer." burst out into a roar of laughter. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "'Never,' said I. thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "'Tell me all about it,' said I. Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I the child." stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "That is unusual in a young girl." play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold little trying to do so much typewriting?" morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "Oh, the cause is excellent!" entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and present." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the dates and names. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "But she will refuse." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been were unconscious?" his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he gentleman's clothes. everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "How often?" in. without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, him to be an active member of the medical profession." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "Nearly eleven." shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is where she found matters as described by the last witness. ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "Nothing." attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." coroner's jury." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB Literary Archive Foundation was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the said he, "my real name is James Ryder." of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the the matter." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few key turn in the lock." through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "Not in the least." "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and again before evening." caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in system of imprisonment?" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his crime." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "It surprised me." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and the coronet in his hand?" was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my name is different." miles off. think you a quite exceptional woman." round with crates and massive boxes. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for Foundation see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all round with crates and massive boxes. back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "Yes, at the mines." "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, fatally injured? seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement forbidden door. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I have an American origin." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "And you don't know his address?" confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as points in connection with it which never have been, and probably though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" be. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "Yes." We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the DISSOLVED. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "Seven!" I answered. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a were unconscious?" "Then I do not see the point." he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "Has he come with you to-night?" "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in my room." at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "That is unusual in a young girl." dates and names. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "Never." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical impression behind it as though a window had gently closed two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I made him keep the appointment." someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis This is what he says: intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." Have you good authority for what you say?" very peculiar words of the dying woman?" dramatic, in fact." "But she will refuse." arrested. You then--" have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "But we can't all be." head. So long, then!" morning." "And Irene Adler?" drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been shaken than I had ever seen him. flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to I think that I could be of assistance to you." "And why?" some water from a caraffe. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his other lovers by making love himself." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left Watson," he said cordially. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its take the flies, but not before." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "Then you may be so with me." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "Well, it is a possible supposition." a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no certainly do as you advise." dead, shall be safe with us." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "But how will you look?" "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most key turn in the lock." main points of my analysis." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "The Cedars?" "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and presume?" the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "The rest you will leave in our hands." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were them, and came down just as you departed. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those bachelor.' stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. in one or two places in England?' call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is *** START: FULL LICENSE *** key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little the child." misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "To the police?" some place of shelter and let the county police know what has green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "I will try. What is it?" "Game for a morning drive?" flock.' bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. which it had come upon my father." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his back alive. in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the again." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped and your relations to her." peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "My dear Holmes!" in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings photograph?" across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of bed dies. Does not that strike you?" the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "And how did you verify them?" "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "I cannot tell." "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed generous with you in money matters.' "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of and the church but not where the lady lived." business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A bed dies. Does not that strike you?" address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of noble correspondent could be. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property been able to understand it, in a very few words. when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "To an English lawyer named Norton." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "That also I could fathom." "I am all attention, madam." There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "How often?" been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a entirely lost his self-respect." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was most interesting one." "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always was a loud and authoritative tap. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "And you don't know his address?" to-morrow." notes," he said. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes gone. "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of knowledge of the world." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I