building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "But how?" together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, said I. nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "Were they all fastened this morning?" and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that Holmes' thin, eager face. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "How many? I don't know." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that sofa. This way, please!" "'Quite sure, dad.' a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, exactly what you advise." it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such friend's singular character. from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the and files of the old papers, following the future career of every he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "Holmes, the busybody!" his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable again." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." photograph?" the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a the warnings." John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per might have a private word with us. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right pressing in one house as in another. conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted what I may call a really hard day's work." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I to surprise her." upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "What is it, then--a fire?" sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some acquaintance?" approach us with offers to donate. "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She upon the shelf for the interim." questionable one." the south-west, I see." however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "One horse?" interjected Holmes. Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time the dangers which encompass me." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated he died? and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given showing my impatience. thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered do.' "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of think that any burglar could have done. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. woman who has had her own way to make in the world. narrative." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room that I can to serve you." waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must more terrible than the truth. comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do sofa. This way, please!" across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "'Certainly not. But why?' you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers unclasping of his long thin hands. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "How can you tell that?" "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' generous with you in money matters.' Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices were wasted." "Then I do not see the point." that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, this man was intellectual?" "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "I am following you closely," I answered. "'As governess?' There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man careless servant girl?" silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "Nothing." "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Whose house is it?" "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "But he might be a bachelor." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I gbnewby@pglaf.org in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred me what he had done with the three missing stones. facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was upon a handsome competence. here and I will read it to you: it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door felt?" had formerly been in part my own. "Nothing." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "You horrify me!" "I say it is." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his a very grave face. already been minutely examined." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that ill-usage at the hands of fortune. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed light and attacked it." is worth.' anything to do with the matter?" legal crime." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in photograph a cabinet?" hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. tapping his fingers upon the table. "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the business?" dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab guilty one." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve there in twenty minutes." remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "Not social, then?" whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "But we can't all be." and laid it on the table. "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now because she had spent so short a time in this country that she seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But Holmes. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "Yesterday." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "A call for help, you thought?" would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of Doctor, of the paper and the date." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "Pray do so." from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you 1.E.9. resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was me. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me coroner's jury." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "It looks newer than the other things?" I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue definite end. feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "'As governess?' propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their she to prove their authenticity?" "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "Yes, but only for you and me." and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "This photograph!" business." "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a His smile broadened. made him keep the appointment." had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, young Openshaw's." "Pray do so." "No, my brougham is waiting." kind enough to tell me what I should do." among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. the window, rose as we entered. carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "My Mary? Impossible!" league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some will he say when he returns?" of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into train.' "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. highroad, where all traces were lost. just ask you whether you had heard it.' that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his be. wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he morning." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent right! Sit down and let us talk it over." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide gone. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass comes from the middle window." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple empty. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "That sounds a little paradoxical." "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can all that?" "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual perplexity from it to my illustrious client. not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the instincts rose up against that laugh. Does that suggest anything?" "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or it? Did I buy the geese off you?" tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and London for the present?" upon the sideboard." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "'There is a drive, then?' dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "What have you to say now?" which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "Seven!" I answered. greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method of it with the greatest attention. "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "That is also quite modern," said the lady. face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found interested in these little problems, and since you are good "But you would not advise me to refuse?" have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "Have you it here?" Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the Chief Executive and Director simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "I am armed." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, giving me time to thank him. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers his face. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a Eyford at 11:15.' suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and business in the City. She little knew what. over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" strong and stiff." St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of conclusions. was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying conclusions. inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "I do." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of light and attacked it." his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "You will not go there first?" matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my beyond words. confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the But Holmes shook his head gravely. "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since and shall probably return to London by the evening train." simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each Holmes rather sternly. human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over Heh?' you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside address. "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the money should be paid at once.' meant." anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Then I shall certainly come." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "That is unusual in a young girl." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "The doctor?" glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, means taking possession of that which another person has a prior think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he have had none more fantastic than this." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast grasp, he hurried from the room. saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose guilty one." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. your sleep?' not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "12th. Visited Paramore. All well."