however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he respectable self." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: redistribution. therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I and have this put in the evening papers." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps visitors." long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain up this clue while it is still hot." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "A confidential servant?" "I say that I have solved it." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "Was there a secret marriage?" nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time anything to a woman, for she would have her way." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "The knees of his trousers." that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a I shall continue with my miserable story. "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "'I am sure that I do not know.' summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect vault. murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say Street. heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this Literary Archive Foundation "It goes to the housekeeper's room." ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance definite end. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "An enemy?" Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were our word." erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said you give your casting vote to?" to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, presented more singular features than that which was associated that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest your most interesting statement." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back awkward doing business with an alias." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "None." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "What will you do, then?" - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "And your father? Did you tell him?" should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "He is dead," cried several voices. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "And you can do nothing until then?" away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not and laid it on the table. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "But his left-handedness." found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" enter Dr. Roylott's room." thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "Then, as to money?" weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk be best to do. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "Then I can wait in the next room." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your down. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet to that open window." which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a During two years I have had three consultations and one small "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able already been minutely examined." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "How can you tell that?" from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "You did not overhear what they said?" whole matter to your consideration." They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his official police." "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "Is he quiet?" and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "My dear Holmes!" row." help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this get her out of the way." 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman will not take me long to tell. "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it DISSOLVED. "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence that I am arrested." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and of note-paper. It read in this fashion: clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to sofa. This way, please!" hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "Who by?" acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his recover the gem." been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "To the police?" drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently future lives." "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. remarked. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "Was he the only applicant?" "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the my former friend and companion. hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "No." I have it here in my museum." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Entirely." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable II. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we to tell." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "I cannot as yet see any connection." think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" that you saw all that I did." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "Entirely." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "At what time?" "You'll never persuade me to believe that." there when the Rucastles went away." there!' that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I since then to throw any light upon what became of him." relief. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose written. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" figure." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical Holmes' face clouded over. here and I will read it to you: "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or villagers almost as much as their master. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten may have an influence upon European history." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of photograph a cabinet?" I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "My own seal." "No, but the enclosure is." have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day him and tried to hold him back. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "Why? What do you mean?" Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded help us in this matter." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "What are they?" return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She bedroom door." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Yes, I have one waiting." greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "No, I think that I'll take it." "Absolutely none." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" off." without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "But of what society?" then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "A confidential servant?" from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he learned something! Where are the gems?" them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "No, distinctly professional." breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my we went to search for him, face downward in a little Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: drove away. it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was your most interesting statement." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on anything to a woman, for she would have her way." freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search case before our client came into the room." little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I situation." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "Certainly." for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in will not take me long to tell. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "No, but the enclosure is." Mary, has deserted me." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one just called myself is not exactly my own." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were completely overtopped every other consideration that we both be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. be best to do. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly me upon any point which I do not make clear." Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass never came back." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "Certainly." to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "She walked into the breakfast-room." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, hand, madam?" "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is lids now and glanced across at his visitor. you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you better in every way that they should make their position a little she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her http://www.gutenberg.net dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "Why did you beat the pavement?" matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "The Coroner: What do you mean? said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I spark where all is dark to me." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me,