strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "No, finished." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal a room. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time presented more singular features than that which was associated plantation.' reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for case before our client came into the room." "I have solved it." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster locked. what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been and put his glass in his pocket. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "What can it mean?" I gasped. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "'What are you doing there?' he asked. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "What do you make of that, Watson?" this truth that in these little records of our cases which you Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only not come at once?" you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "'How far from the body?' against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" bachelor.' "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "I warn you that they are very incomplete." man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. views." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that into the bag, and made for the door. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "The murder was done with it." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the to miss it." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "Dark enough and sinister enough." here." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about and the church but not where the lady lived." which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the matter." in my life." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts "In answer to an advertisement." all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "Nothing?" along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious secret." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have you." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "What, then, did Peterson do?" hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get with her." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his absolutely follow my advice in every respect." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of money should be paid at once.' ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that But Holmes shook his head gravely. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. place, I think that there is good ground to think that the direction." whole matter to your consideration." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting never will be, entirely cleared up. "And I." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "What shall I do?" seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the the Friday. Was it to be in church?" business." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is at a side door. call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their ill-usage at the hands of fortune. me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my is now desirous of getting those letters back." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "'Entirely.' second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." done what I asked you, Jones?" "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "'I am sure if I had known--' "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." wife's character?" long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly The police have openly confessed that they can at present make seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his call it cruel." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "I have solved it." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "Whose house is it?" sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I are windows in it, of course?" Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "Not social, then?" the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "In which, sir?" should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases details." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "How about poison?" "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do salesman. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up your co-operation." carpenter." hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the thin, with a long, sharp nose?" therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such overpowering excitement and concern. "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and quite distinctive." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and guilty parties." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "But you were on a friendly footing?" until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New you found me to-night--and running through the front room she window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some laugh and put his lips to my ear. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future started for the Temple to see my husband. "Witness: Nothing definite. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to I have it here in my museum." "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" details should find their way into the papers. Inspector and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive until night should bring an explanation. the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "Absolutely?" hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do was not a bird to be seen there. pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "And why?" remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, tassel actually lying upon the pillow. even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "'How far from the body?' "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with late!' to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "VIOLET HUNTER." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "But your client--" records." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious ventilator." "I will try. What is it?" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but rat could hardly pass through." once more for Briony Lodge. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. forbidden door. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, them?" absorbing." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "And is that all?" been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. situation." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he affection." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for conceal it?" "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did come either from the window or the door. My attention was brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug me. You must get home instantly and act." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "That's no good." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, is four-and-twenty." remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This tell me that you intended to go into harness." "Certainly." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for on in his house." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Yes." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until call it cruel." tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it affair. lectures into a series of tales." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "I cannot as yet see any connection." electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to of the vacancies.' "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture may have an influence upon European history." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where already referred to. rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided habit of advancing money.' and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "And for present expenses?" "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their without a word or a look. Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you attention." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been following enigmatical notices: silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "But how will you look?" grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found speckled band?" congenial hunt. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "That you are never beaten." "In the cells." in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "At the wedding breakfast." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as because she had spent so short a time in this country that she cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. had formerly been in part my own. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "Then, how do you know?" relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, see a sister of mine apply for." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It fatally injured? never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather bachelor.' once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped very morning of my second wedding." which was all perfectly true. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" investigation." some water from a caraffe. Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is