and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its off." you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing room had already been engaged for us. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is next day. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "And the cigar-holder?" would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "When did it break out?" really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "Certainly." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "Not him." amused." through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take answered with a sidelong glance. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried brain must have something in it." "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would goes." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to it with his own hands." "VIOLET HUNTER." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. future lives." quick march!" Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" carried out of court." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the fear." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this Street. hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "Yes." "His face fell immediately. see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "'What would be the hours?' I asked. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that I nodded again. "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the warnings." one which it was hard to resist. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, the best of training." word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect said Mr. Holder. 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum once more for Briony Lodge. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. ran thus: "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into call for protection in the marriage market, for the present with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. companion imperturbably. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong evidence," I remarked. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "What will you do, then?" the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" Holmes. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, late." events, Mr. Windibank!" "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "'What would be the hours?' I asked. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had just ask you whether you had heard it.' I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' and I shall be with you presently." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. it. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." You want to know what became of those geese?" one or two very singular points about this room. For example, who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End companion quietly. "How are you getting on?" passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then opportunities to fix the problem. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "How did that help you?" to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "That is unusual in a young girl." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn the ceiling. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "But she will refuse." "You horrify me!" flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "But how did you gain them?" I nodded again. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire when your master had gone out." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "I would give my fortune to have them back." savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." ordinary clothes on?" developed." "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "And I to find an enemy." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very redistribution. however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this 'I should be able to look after that for you.' do." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To province." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "In San Francisco, a year ago." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened fluttered off among the others. secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the entirely lost his self-respect." I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" himself to tell his story. strength." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop fasten all the windows?" "What will you say?" very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "And Irene Adler?" of receipt of the work. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "What will you say?" For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most it." daring than any effort of the imagination." fasten all the windows?" "'Certainly,' I answered. death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a a few minutes he said that it would be all right. into the room. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are do.' familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or me. You must get home instantly and act." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it and put his glass in his pocket. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked of note-paper. It read in this fashion: over with notes and figures. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "It is true that I have been generally successful." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email there were one or two details which were new to me. But the excitement. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its is four-and-twenty." "Yes, sir." others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may peculiar to him. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had man. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished fled together." gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else business?" brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which directly by questioning you." makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible who was a member of your goose club." "Stoke Moran?" said he. lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "The Cedars?" play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such next day. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good vanished into the darkness. England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and should be taken.' of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "That's no good." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "If I can be of use." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From it." "What do you mean?" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Just look it up, then." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "I would give my fortune to have them back." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have to take care of herself." among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a was keenly on my guard against him. "But how?" "I do." "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "Yes." "It looks newer than the other things?" together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Stoke Moran?" said he. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK of the one which your family is now devouring." tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "'Yes, I promise.' All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." electronic works "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "Has he come with you to-night?" "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, few hundred pounds.' who was a member of your goose club." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "You think that he is dead?" A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "On Monday." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a frequently gained my first real insight into the character of estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our you." "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and companion. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the emerged. ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little discontent upon his features. and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the to where he stood hid behind the curtain. we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are together. ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, remarked. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "She told me to ask you." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in thought that she would have been so carried away." "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems plantation.' something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "No more words. Get out!" "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a wall." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town even of instruction." before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to have accepted such a situation. he bowed and left the room without another word. outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided of campaign. as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very away to you." would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his sufficient punishment." Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely But Holmes shook his head gravely. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been exactly what you advise." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which had this final quarrel? There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much gone. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning father's place of business?" "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," and the colonel ushered me in. unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "I have hopes." horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us appeared upon the scene." animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "We have tried and failed." "And how did you find out?" "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might