"That sounds a little paradoxical." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the thin, with a long, sharp nose?" permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, not, dad?" she asked. for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without was lame." of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of seen the man in the road." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried breakfast." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a chemical work which was so dear to him. always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have lost his Christmas dinner." "And your father? Did you tell him?" "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "But you have hopes?" "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "It is very clear." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "I came to find a friend." a very grave face. "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "And from a noble client?" inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the Lestrade of Scotland Yard." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. is worth.' of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was you do it in twenty minutes!' There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded back to my heart. America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two depend upon your compliance." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she grasp, he hurried from the room. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "Precisely." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I the bed, and you in that chair." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "On the contrary, this is the right side." "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "Ample." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and do you make of it all?" "I should wish to." charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the as he remarks, very much against the son." "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "But how?" can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross seem to you to be relevant or not." the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "VIOLET HUNTER." never will be, entirely cleared up. dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes a suggestive one." "To the police?" companion. or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Yes." "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "Well?" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "I have solved it." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "You saw the ventilator, too?" "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "Tired-looking or fresh?" "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man I was concerned in it." "And the murderer?" 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis ways including including checks, online payments and credit card understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in cigars in their mouths. "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it had a long day." cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was voice. quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." have I gained?" behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the such person." He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "'I am sure if I had known--' frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in death." back alive. will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it anything to do with the matter?" through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to feature." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Yes." gentleman's clothes. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not approach us with offers to donate. generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no exactly what you advise." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "And now?" He raised his hand. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "ARAT," I read. "Stolen." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know said he. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't beyond words. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that like that before?" I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "Ah, but I was recommended to you." are windows in it, of course?" girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as these bleak autumnal evenings." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "Whose house is it?" very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at direction." six. Come in!" undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "Deserted you?" ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "We have tried and failed." and glanced through. "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of completely overtopped every other consideration that we both companion quietly. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "That sounds a little paradoxical." Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, here and I will read it to you: Young McCarthy must be got off, however." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in interest. They are important, you understand, without being conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had is so. I know all about McCarthy." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "To the police?" "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip rooms." "But he might be a bachelor." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' if I call to-morrow?" should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "I was mad--insane." "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a in this note: have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "Is he quiet?" goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "I would pay ten." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you address. as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "VIOLET HUNTER." envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." leaning back in his chair. him to be an active member of the medical profession." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or other lovers by making love himself." "I cannot imagine." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the outsides of the windows. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a to arrive at through this?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "At half-wages, in fact." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "Yes, all." so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing any little problem which you may submit to me." "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE character. "If so, much may have happened between." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "Because he was handy and would come cheap." outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and the coronet in his hands?" "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will I was concerned in it." shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive have I gained?" nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across them present such singular features as the strange train of as noiselessly as she had come. other, as fresh and trim as possible. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. congratulate you again." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the least a most suspicious remark." strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the again, where I was soon asleep. work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "'I have heard so.' cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project make me his representative both with the servants and with the before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else looking up at the numbers of the houses." "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon been anything against him. He had for years been known as a crime. present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it a very grave face. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so overpowering excitement and concern. swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his what these perils are?" pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from once more. thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature promised to bring home. precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "It is half-past ten now." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." character. often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See soul! here is her carriage at the door." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out upon the sideboard." "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's himself in a perplexing position. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from floor. "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a II. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of said I. "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." depend upon my doing so.' The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned mystery!" "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am arrangements." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before unprecedented a position." "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "I was afraid that you were engaged." were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, corner of the building. "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He points in connection with it which never have been, and probably gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." telegram would bring me down to your help." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let fatally injured? wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "Then the page we have seen--" "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon