money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "We must sit without light. He would see it through the had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, intrusion of other matters." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and head. So long, then!" the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. lips." lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "Entirely." man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "But we can't all be." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are hopeless attempt at recovering them." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy me upon any point which I do not make clear." particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "No." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, cigars in the box." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "What are they?" point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "Yes, sir." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. a little more before I quite committed myself. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on skylight. seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "'There is a drive, then?' before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a It may be so in this case, also." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the I shall continue with my miserable story. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "And for present expenses?" very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall returned to France?" uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on fuss that is made over them." a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, impression behind it as though a window had gently closed give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will long narrative. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the train from Paddington which would bring you there at about agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "Not in the least." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." the driver. "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "How did you deduce the select?" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "In answer to an advertisement." mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I directly by questioning you." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "Texas, I think." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. happened." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave question," said Holmes, smiling. have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as him to be an active member of the medical profession." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "Yes." "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I she to prove their authenticity?" "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she and looked back. said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of papers diligently of late, have you not?" Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "He said that you could solve anything." "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a lids now and glanced across at his visitor. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a second." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, Holmes rather sternly. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon of." Sutherland?" we went to search for him, face downward in a little the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "You saw the ventilator, too?" "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked strength of mind to control. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the this poor creature." "He slept on the premises." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "It was an hour's good drive." from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear flock.' good for you to do.' sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business you." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you Holmes rather sternly. means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "An accident, I presume?" expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" do you make of it all?" was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "Yes." "And for present expenses?" "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Yes, I have one waiting." dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her to his chemical studies. grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the guilty one." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "Holmes, the busybody!" were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the that there was nothing in it, after all." when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a returning from some small jollification and was making his way result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "To an English lawyer named Norton." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of 1.F. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the occurred." Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where I shall continue with my miserable story. expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Quite so. She has her freedom." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each certainly not very gracious." at a side door. elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and disappearance of the bride.'" I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." Henry Baker is a member." where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not what I may call a really hard day's work." has little to do with my story." that he will be back before evening." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the Literary Archive Foundation The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "The murder was done with it." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "Then, as to money?" reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, not fit the lock." "Stolen, then." fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Of what?" Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies green of the new foliage. "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "'Ample.' were new raised from a basin. experiences." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while indeed happy." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "No, distinctly professional." "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has young Openshaw's." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink despaired of." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and nothing with him." from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that cup of tea. Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "The Cedars?" and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. words came to my lips. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in evidence," I remarked. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." as the one I chose?' autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. Eyford." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "It was an hour's good drive." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "No?" I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you His smile broadened. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that here and I will read it to you: "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside what is your own theory as to what took place?" "Quite so. She has her freedom." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to door?" Count Von Kramm." "By all means." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might page at http://pglaf.org The King stared at him in amazement. "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so remarked. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern his fortune, and I went back to pa. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid be. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "A thing like a cleaver," said he. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and arrested. You then--" the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "I shall most certainly do so." lost nothing by them." him nearly every evening." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out is," said he presently: which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these matter over." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." coat-tails." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the hardly wander." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered nothing with him." Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "Yes?" "Was the window open?" cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "None." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the The note was undated, and without either signature or address. when you have done it." rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving indiscretion." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke 1.E.9. "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. Pope's Court. remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then weary and pale-looking. unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." appointment with me for six o'clock?" the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "It was." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. Heh?' the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "Nothing?" young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "Tired-looking or fresh?" round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "Entirely." money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London is a common subject for conversation. I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a paper in the air. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend returning from some small jollification and was making his way Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." derbies." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "I think that I had better go, Holmes." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little