side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a directors, with the result that you have seen." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." society." he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." closing the door. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed look dissatisfied." Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a meant it for the best. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as success. "Where is it, then?" many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "Yes, from Horsham." whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and money should be paid at once.' "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by in a very precise fashion." pressing in one house as in another. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to Literary Archive Foundation "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to extraordinary contortions. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself business." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and may have an influence upon European history." time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "I shall most certainly do so." observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." corner of the building. in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some said he. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers was lame." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "And why?" held up the lantern and gazed about him. "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting miles off. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the Dr. Gregory B. Newby laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to enter into my head. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without breakfast and whispered something to her husband. roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." of Fenchurch Street." determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety simple cases which are so extremely difficult." the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "You will not go there first?" Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "Now, then, what's the last entry?" redistribution. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "I see many objections to any such theory." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore is a common subject for conversation. on re-entering her father's house?" handed it to him. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "And how in the world did you find them?" authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "In which, sir?" had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which grasp, he hurried from the room. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet bore every mark of being an average commonplace British idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who shoulder. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the "Only as much as we can deduce." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "The Coroner: What do you mean? "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose obstinate." man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good good for you to do.' number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "It is no ordinary one." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" the very morning of the wedding." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I directors, with the result that you have seen." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes and shall probably return to London by the evening train." http://gutenberg.net/license). the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. the matter?" fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce lectures into a series of tales." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's Watson," he said cordially. gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "She will not sell." save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two throat." Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we occupations.' the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this down in his armchair and closing his eyes. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to like gravel from a pit.' dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able I am not easy in my mind about them." came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "A client, then?" Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "And I." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the happened." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "Not I." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "To ruin me." "Who was the criminal, then?" disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "What can you not understand?" same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a as he folded up the epistle. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "She showed me, as I told you she would." questioning and rather startled gaze. spare." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you that you can jump it.' him, that man would not have given me such complete information return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "No." "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and their singular warning or token before them when starting upon the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." bare slabs of marble. "'Ample.' his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "He is dead," cried several voices. week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "And it is--" you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great brought there to personate someone, and the real person is "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has until night should bring an explanation. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I cost them two and thirty pounds." advice." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "I assure you that I am in your hands." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when one's self under obligations.' places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit throat." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "Yes, but only for you and me." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with humiliation." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me observed. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would woven round him. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg think, you have already met." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "But she will refuse." huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "No legal papers or certificates?" o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "No, distinctly professional." "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent money should be paid at once.' never came back." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. I shall communicate with you." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the beg that you will break it off." "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and despair." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with his face. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be prison!" furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "What then?" "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to night.' said he. your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "'And what are they worth?' I asked. writing, and yet I know it well." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven had this final quarrel? air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "And is that all?" "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very enter Dr. Roylott's room." income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." the station." idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "You are hungry," I remarked. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business thirty. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "But his left-handedness." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your http://www.gutenberg.net see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have seen the man in the road." down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client investigation." down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these you." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up kind enough to tell me what I should do." rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream your only hope of safety." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the that I may have something better before very many minutes are that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the point in the dark hollow of his hand. "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I make me his representative both with the servants and with the actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "I cannot say that I have." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "And Miss Sutherland?" compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the is four-and-twenty." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "When did it break out?" "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the could gather together that I was able to avert another public "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular the general public were present, then?" If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us