conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "No. What a strange idea!" been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Here?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very you give your casting vote to?" "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than papers diligently of late, have you not?" "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "Always." thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the Munro.' "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "What can you not understand?" His smile broadened. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "'Yes, it was gone.' "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." was shining brightly. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "It is very kind of you." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the the running down." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. to tell." "So I have heard." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I it." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet considering the formidable letters which were received by himself misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "Won't it ring?" you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. about here speaks of his kindness to him." http://gutenberg.net/license). "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey "What have you to say now?" "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety My friend smiled. forebodings. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I call for it in person on Monday morning.' Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would do.' are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to eat it." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "Which surely he restored to their owner?" heavily into it. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small bedroom door." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "I cannot as yet see any connection." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike friends, not even his own brother. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by past. again before evening." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was Countess of Morcar's?" We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "But what harm can there be in that?" "'Entirely.' was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking to affect your life." "I have my revolver," said I. "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that like that before?" to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "But of what society?" With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked disturbance in my wife." will he say when he returns?" late." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "So I have heard." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "Thank you. Pray proceed." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "That you are never beaten." "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have man. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "He slept on the premises." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "What! Had he lost his wife?" "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question is a common subject for conversation. against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method I nodded again. Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off papers must be those that are destroyed.' and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "I know where it is." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "What!" he roared. our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours to have that photograph." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with the stones. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It Count Von Kramm." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, his forehead." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable indiscretion." takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the a suggestive one." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the strode off upon his way. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I opportunities to fix the problem. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT writer." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "I have seen the police." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal strode off upon his way. without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own confronted him. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally the so-precious time, but come!' of the way of danger. your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into been deceived." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than go--none." "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "I should be immensely obliged to you." still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and main points of my analysis." will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most other, as fresh and trim as possible. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I do.' "At what time?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "And how have you succeeded?" come either from the window or the door. My attention was after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "What have you done?" asked Holmes. ran thus: "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation new acquaintance to Baker Street. good for you to do.' "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy I was concerned in it." uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of key of the affair now." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised interests were the same as his." imbecility!" he cried. other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If not personally threatened." to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford business?" here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "'Then let me do so?' "And what did you learn from him?" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all III. gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was way in everything. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark fishes. someone who had been in Australia." instituted." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with been with you?" those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to coat-tails." pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California have one." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as have not had my rubber." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and Watson," he said cordially. "You horrify me!" connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "And you don't know his address?" attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "None." "Not in a good cause." the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "And how did you find out?" took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler breakfast." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any of Fenchurch Street." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few main points of my analysis." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my hard-headed British jury." or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to From what you have told me I think that it is possible that continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her I shall communicate with you." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself 1.E.9. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number if only as a check to my own memory." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "But of what society?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would within hail.' be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his without success. At last the little money which I had saved began the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "This concluded the examination of the witness." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way to-morrow." very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in you for a few hours?" to where he stood hid behind the curtain. do you make of it all?" "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for wedding?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular events, Mr. Windibank!" set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "'Is 4 pounds a week.' research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have Gutenberg-tm License. "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "I beg pardon." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "Then I do not see the point." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your key of the affair now." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on which it had come upon my father." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." I was concerned in it." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion the coronet in his hands?" third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "'It is locked up,' I answered. means taking possession of that which another person has a prior continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. burst into a hearty fit of laughter. outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "Yesterday." the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "You are certainly joking, Holmes." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used the matter?" "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, any more." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you the King without delay." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when said he at last. "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "On your arm?" nights." desk. place of silver." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. room?" "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged the little opening for the ventilator is." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the any more." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my little adventures." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you in the hope of finding them." "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "By train from Waterloo." they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you know what is wrong with it.' Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is newspaper selections." shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of relief. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "What do you mean?" "Thank you. Pray proceed." more? 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