tell him that I know him to be innocent." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange appeal." "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very she might be summoned. Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" indiscretion." presented more singular features than that which was associated and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until gone before you can get him to hospital." the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside ourselves in the office." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "No." public press." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Upon what point?" it." indeed which he could not unravel. the dangers which encompass me." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms other means.' avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "'About the same.' his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is at my own good fortune. vanished into the darkness. "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of answer." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "That is not always so easy." "Yes." have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, burst out into a roar of laughter. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported round with crates and massive boxes. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the round and wave him away like that.' years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "Quite so. She has her freedom." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your carpenter." "So I heard. You have him here?" beg that you will break it off." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she perplexity from it to my illustrious client. mysterious end." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "I have my revolver," said I. England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to as yours." will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this o'clock is it?" sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their his face. When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and present." one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "What is it, then--a fire?" grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came not as remarkable as your advertisement." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. maiden herself was most instructive." legal crime." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a have got?" when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." until night should bring an explanation. Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads affair. "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "He slept on the premises." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and Sutherland?" sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "Deserted you?" providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance shoulder. whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father prove to be little relation between the different incidents of this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "What will you say?" indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES me upon any point which I do not make clear." "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." my little problems." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until flock.' far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "But what harm can there be in that?" of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in photograph a cabinet?" "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point murdered man." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the yourselves in at night?" glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, but preventing her from injuring another. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A just called myself is not exactly my own." impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of his face. "They are typewritten," I remarked. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the problems help me to do so." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he people in all walks of life. way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see helping a boy to put up the shutters. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered following enigmatical notices: preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and the night.' "Do you know him?" "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then indeed which he could not unravel. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it through." access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "Never to return." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the beyond words. me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "Yes." he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a see a sister of mine apply for." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at and shall probably return to London by the evening train." it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it our word." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "But you have hopes?" Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though that threaten you." circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in seem to you to be relevant or not." not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of are, I think, all that we need." right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "And why in hopes?" said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Not I." clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose Cross for the Continent." past. "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had of note-paper. It read in this fashion: deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill ventilator." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "It is very clear." was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "That you are never beaten." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be such attractions and accomplishments?' as he remarks, very much against the son." like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "I will try. What is it?" "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite begun to whiten, even as mine has." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "Perfectly so." year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle be there in time for your coming." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my morning." was a loud and authoritative tap. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his "Quite so." afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "My private note-paper." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "Where, then, is my wife?" "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "No." for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "They are typewritten," I remarked. started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the lumber-room." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known For additional contact information: nothing with him." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he them?" "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened used to be." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "'Is purely nominal.' severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "That is easily got." is entirely a question of barometric pressure." easy-going way." Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you Watson," he said cordially. the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. kindly on the shoulder. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "You think so, too?" followed. "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the instituted." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "He is dead," cried several voices. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "Never." generous with you in money matters.' "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors sake, don't!" "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." again before evening." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke train.' brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring said he at last. points to suicide?" "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a the stones. Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I acquaintance?" "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "Not I." "Really! You surprise me." "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and have I gained?" "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "Who was the criminal, then?" unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "Yes, that is the Crown." "You think so, too?" for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "Was the window open?" woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "Witness: I must still refuse. matter over." thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "That is easily got." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is would apply.' papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, chemical work which was so dear to him. is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very