"It is solved." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' place of silver." conduct the inquiry." "It is solved." Gutenberg-tm License. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, business matters.' return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "Ample." "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some see a sister of mine apply for." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be late." winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I stood on the top of it. Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still the stable lane now." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich our word." the roots. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to you came in." "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip charged with?" it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. silent! Oh, he will be silent!' Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "'Where could I find him?' time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "May I see it?" "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, miles off. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "And who is her maid?" Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take are windows in it, of course?" conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" dates and names. iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" case before our client came into the room." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "'As governess?' "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." delighted to hear it," he said. our word." there in twenty minutes." must compliment you." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" I nodded again. servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds foot. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note into the bag, and made for the door. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "Get out!" said he. this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in father's place of business?" will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "A client, then?" "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the the morning and make my own way in the world.' "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "No, my brougham is waiting." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "It is very kind of you." "It's nothing of the kind." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had desk. he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into you give your casting vote to?" nothing with him." on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. there in twenty minutes." For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, your troubles." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold be.' red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was felt the room to be a little close.' "The landlord of the Alpha." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the future lives." regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "One of his hands." "You have carte blanche." constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, key of the affair now." if only as a check to my own memory." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor better grown goose." quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case sooner or later she must fall a victim. Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "Where, then, is my wife?" this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by have had none more fantastic than this." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can writers could invent nothing more crude." think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to that threaten you." him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and vault. I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "Your presence might be invaluable." these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "And what did you see?" from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "Bought." "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "Yes." "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "Certainly." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "You forget that I know nothing about it." whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down him." peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence answered with a sidelong glance. this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in enter Dr. Roylott's room." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is six. Come in!" "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have name is different." built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "In which, sir?" "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at will be renamed. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. Surrey." "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It said he. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "I am sure." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "I am still in the dark." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "But she will refuse." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come the morning and make my own way in the world.' iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding that the gas is not laid on in his house?" is a common subject for conversation. police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "It is true that I have been generally successful." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into presented more singular features than that which was associated the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, yards of it?' said I. is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it interested in these little problems, and since you are good because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from astonishment. which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "I think that it is very probable." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his him!" bill, which interests me deeply." colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, think you a quite exceptional woman." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." better grown goose." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable public press." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big you." to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to quite distinctive." burst out into a roar of laughter. the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the perplexity from it to my illustrious client. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "I am about to be married." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a she has been waylaid. There has been no result." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that business at Coburg Square is serious." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by murdered man." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to upon the white wrist. heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "'I have already given you my word.' deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your had a long day." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. bachelor.' observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. "You have the photograph?" questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were away into the river." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place you in yours." "He might." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon sentimental considerations in the background which would induce Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "Pray continue your narrative." "Yes, it would be as well." examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "So it appears." 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." opened the door, and slipped through. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others events than those which have happened in my own family." "I beg pardon." shall not find me ungrateful." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him lamp in his hand. served to weaken the effect. being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. fattened it expressly for you.' to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet me. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "I should wish to." as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a laugh and put his lips to my ear. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my went to the Alpha were town bred." "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the about. he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. arrested. You then--" his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "I think it very unlikely." towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. whole matter to your consideration." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled written, and locked the door of the office after me. "'I am sure if I had known--' "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled nights." "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the Farm upon the left." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any long narrative. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, opened a pocket-book and took out a note. Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "I should wish to." "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "10th. John Swain cleared. indeed which he could not unravel. and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the to miss it." better grown goose." the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing there was no need for father to know." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of stalked out of the room. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this