and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One have I gained?" "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her which are rolled in Rotterdam." With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin residence of the great financier. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "I never have." forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then examination of the premises, but without finding anything which the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress strange features which were associated with the two crimes which was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "Deserted you?" lips." bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the has little to do with my story." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's investigation." St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand address. process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "It looks newer than the other things?" study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "No. His orders were to stay in the house." VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with my room." "The knees of his trousers." "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "One?" "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." south, for the country is more deserted there." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to you?' "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "By no means." man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in frequently gained my first real insight into the character of we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "Never." cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united new duties?' Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "Yes, at the mines." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be gentleman's clothes. unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness the morning and make my own way in the world.' held up the lantern and gazed about him. in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "One of his hands." which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "In heaven's name, what for?" "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you forbidden door. Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton interested in these little problems, and since you are good "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five was feeling which was the fattest.' near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." Doctor, of the paper and the date." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all a very grave face. the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us definite end. a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself me have 200 pounds?' veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner trying to your nerves." that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had vanished into the darkness. "Then, as to money?" Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at unprofitable." cigar and let me expound." three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "To an English lawyer named Norton." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "On the contrary, this is the right side." crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "Oh, yes, easily." Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which was it brought him the coronet? took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "Here?" brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I out." on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND invisible to me," I remarked. "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and and a shock of very red hair. with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you States. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were allusion to a rat. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from your only hope of safety." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "In answer to an advertisement." "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the really the only notable feature about the thing." "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "What then?" Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm so.' gone. deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as information in his hands the value of which he did not himself threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "Certainly." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, that he has suffered." "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the 11:15.' pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary my room." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, that I am arrested." "And sit in the dark?" and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of Dr. Gregory B. Newby not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he could not account in any way for the presence of the missing that I can to serve you." all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "I see many objections to any such theory." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or the loss of it. on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few the coronet in his hand?" that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Heh?' "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "'I am sure if I had known--' registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering on re-entering her father's house?" Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for have been better. It is all right." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "I fear not." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to it were putty." so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous keep the flames under. think, you have already met." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers so.' "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning ill-usage at the hands of fortune. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I noise which awoke you from your sleep?" had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "It came here." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate help us in this matter." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "Then he might have called to you?" sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which asked with his eyes open. "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should the side-table." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. into the room. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small signal between you and your father? disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman she slowly sank and died without having recovered her have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his breakfast?" rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, of fine shops and stately business premises that they really weighed down with some great anxiety. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was the inner apartment." Sutherland?" "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that garden below. mysterious business." presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve help us in this matter." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress colour had been driven from his face. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, DISSOLVED. "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a it." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "It certainly sounds feasible." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the the coronet in his hand?" blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "That's no good." "Holmes, the busybody!" waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been affair. body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "'Yes.' my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "Quite so. She has her freedom." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his DISSOLVED. them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would I. child?' papers diligently of late, have you not?" But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Yes, sir." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "He is still with you, I presume?" while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the kindly on the shoulder. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up sentimental considerations in the background which would induce trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the drove away. confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to had no one to advise her at such a crisis." skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from the stones. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most instituted." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. wife's character?" Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is exactly what you advise." The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "The King of Scandinavia." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say will take you up to see the machine.' "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that certainly do as you advise." stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "I cannot tell." into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a be best to do. of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "'I am sure if I had known--' "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Where, then, is my wife?" always that they were such commands as a lady might with "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I in him." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of advice." "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "How did he come?" Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. and laid it on the table. "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much up this clue while it is still hot." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "None." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the