imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, goes." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man During two years I have had three consultations and one small Mrs. Toller serenely. "Witness: I must still refuse. the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a me have 200 pounds?' and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, possible that we could bring him back to her? DAMAGE. aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "What! You do not mean bodies?" these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him Again Holmes raved in the air. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything not fit the lock." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here call the police, let the police find what they can.' do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "And now?" I asked. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in foot. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "'Entirely.' Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the October 9, 1890. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "Yes, it would be as well." effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" is so. I know all about McCarthy." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "You forget that I know nothing about it." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you to you." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite absorbing." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were their singular warning or token before them when starting upon out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it nothing of it?" problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular Sutherland. I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so have an American origin." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Yes, it would be as well." There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked goes." brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect detained." children over to America with him, so that I found myself without bonnet, and went out." "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "'How far from the body?' accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, the salesman. them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of business?" outside. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' This is what he says: "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "I am in hopes that she does." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "Why did you pick him?" "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There foresight and the moral retrogression?" "Which are?" and have this put in the evening papers." "It is a murder, then?" Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "An enemy?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Precisely." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be silent! Oh, he will be silent!' of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to the ceiling. "No." I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as mystery may be cleared along those lines." world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible stammered. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Quite so. She has her freedom." she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "A confidential servant?" fear." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of cheerful." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can that you can jump it.' matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "I will do it." key of the affair now." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, there!' matter." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty the ceiling. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "An enemy?" and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all front of me. heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and of his shoulders. "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the not, dad?" she asked. plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." throat." "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. that imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive memory. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "The best possible." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "It came here." despaired of." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already upon the sideboard." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." charge against him will break down." "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my really the only notable feature about the thing." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "Eh? What was that?" "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." London for the present?" singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the suddenly upon us." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "How can you tell that?" as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." gentleman's clothes. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in clang of the bell. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. and the church but not where the lady lived." his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "You were travelling in the States?" is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her good for you to do.' astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "I am all attention, madam." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy soul! here is her carriage at the door." "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "I say that I have solved it." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better good for you to do.' make me his representative both with the servants and with the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove leaning back in his chair. it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. said I. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the ago." done what I asked you, Jones?" five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of directors, with the result that you have seen." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, opened a pocket-book and took out a note. matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with not come at once?" grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Yes." feature." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. standing smiling on the door-step. head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I whatever might befall. "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "Yes, that is the Crown." she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' simple cases which are so extremely difficult." page at http://pglaf.org done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's distinguish the words: companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out conduct the inquiry." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, your Highness to the police-station?" such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. from you?" "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that outside." threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, entirely lost his self-respect." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "'And the work?' with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "But your client--" smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my bird I ate is country bred." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. the very letters. But what is this written above them?' For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my bed dies. Does not that strike you?" anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "I am following you closely," I answered. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried narrative." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. your most interesting statement." ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." following enigmatical notices: take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with habit of advancing money.' perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the be.' and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would empty. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he the salesman. "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." enter into my head. in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of which our visitor detailed to us. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their do.' Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." vanished into the darkness. her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never me." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform sparkled upon his finger. "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "Were they all fastened this morning?" you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned purpose of examination. stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would him to go away.' "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I easy-going way." The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do