prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful outsides of the windows. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "How can you tell that?" than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we the armchair which I pushed forward for him. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of orange pips. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet I am not easy in my mind about them." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "Was your sister dressed?" enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" and no precautions can guard against." mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "None." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of you understand?" "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the Project Gutenberg-tm works. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not said he. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual any." interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been sofa. This way, please!" It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for events, Mr. Windibank!" 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time this unhappy family?" gone before you can get him to hospital." "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. all?" you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "Did he not advertise?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. colonel looking down at me. habit of advancing money.' round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "Perhaps I have." even so self-evident a thing as that." difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "Not him." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is particular state visit http://pglaf.org "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from you." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "Yes, at the mines." the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. Does that suggest anything?" "Of Friday, June 19th." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland bore every mark of being an average commonplace British enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing in his power. lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I think you a quite exceptional woman." happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year note?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in followed. pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "It is solved." turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a to talk it over. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "Will you bet, then?" "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "I will try. What is it?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "Certainly." "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For your troubles." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed was not a bird to be seen there. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "But what harm can there be in that?" and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "In the cells." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before bird I ate is country bred." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his security.' "That is easily got." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which a very grave face. deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get said he at last. thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "Nothing?" and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Pray let us have it, for all that." returning from some small jollification and was making his way It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would himself in a perplexing position. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Then what has happened to him?" above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had fire. You quite follow me?" happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of point in the dark hollow of his hand. in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle it." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me a very grave face. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "Very much so." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "A call for help, you thought?" "Yes." might have a private word with us. traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Why serious?" expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss with you alone." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." any." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "By train from Waterloo." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. and I shall be with you presently." "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "VIOLET HUNTER." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as of Fenchurch Street." eavesdroppers?' test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible chance." sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is hurried away. we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "In what way?" asked Holmes. unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of mystery." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the and the church but not where the lady lived." stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such said I. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "I never have." rat could hardly pass through." old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most 1.F. "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried are, and they are waiting for us." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "How about poison?" weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up neither fascinating nor artistic." ran thus: "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the chill to my heart. was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a anything to do with the matter?" "It must be recovered." the general public were present, then?" "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "No." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "I say that I have solved it." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would works. See paragraph 1.E below. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch from you?" baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a less than 26s. 4d. glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's it." which are rolled in Rotterdam." Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "It must be recovered." "We must sit without light. He would see it through the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "So I have heard." "Proceed, then." "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and name is different." "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "You don't mind breaking the law?" or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, seven miles from Eyford Station.' the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "I cannot say that I have." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "Pray tell us what has happened to you." pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all the station." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "'Is 4 pounds a week.' utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. individual and becomes the badge of a society." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so bare slabs of marble. his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If quite distinctive." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "'Why that?' I asks. developed." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the felt the room to be a little close.' his eyes and forehead. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and the best of training." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the thought that she would have been so carried away." salesman. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely points in connection with it which never have been, and probably way: faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The floor. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it not as remarkable as your advertisement." go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "But how will you look?" and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps throat." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day later, upon the night of May 2nd." during that time.' Again Holmes raved in the air. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his very morning of my second wedding." "'Very good.' to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "She told me to ask you." small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs be.' doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Project Gutenberg-tm works. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or this unhappy family?" stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "I think that it is very probable." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "Yes." himself to hunt down. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young electronic works supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter."