"Tired-looking or fresh?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Eh? What was that?" who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the cheerful." hereditary King of Bohemia." The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during me." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons answered with a sidelong glance. "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and married her." better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He was once confined in the cab my mission was practically days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, how narrow had been my escape. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have crime. Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is Holmes' face clouded over. saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "No?" with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "And why?" after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "In what way?" asked Holmes. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and approach us with offers to donate. large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "Was your sister dressed?" have established a very serious case against the son of the "Deserted you?" other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of fatally injured? "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your dates and names. peculiar to him. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "And you thought he was pulled back?" two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "What have you to say now?" "And why?" the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "Where, then, is my wife?" things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if pressing in one house as in another. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project at my own good fortune. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a hurried away. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a already referred to. "They are typewritten," I remarked. happened." do.' house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down the inner apartment." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a the stable lane now." mystery may be cleared along those lines." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of as yours." to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them some mystery and the punishment of some crime." a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and light and attacked it." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the roused himself from his reverie. panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. yards of it?' refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "But we can't all be." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which politicians who had been sent down from the North. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. narrative." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a your own bird, so if you wish--" pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Yes, at the mines." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her fire. You quite follow me?" about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "How often?" the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "9th. McCauley cleared. "About a month then." was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, I approached. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help back into the street. second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to it? Did I buy the geese off you?" stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "And I to find an enemy." gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a light and attacked it." the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "'Oh, no.' see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt be there in time for your coming." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "And how did you find out?" "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "I will try. What is it?" A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was feature." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "He said too much." a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is is so. I know all about McCarthy." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor shall use the carriage to-night." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third then?" firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked approach us with offers to donate. my former friend and companion. never will be, entirely cleared up. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Did you observe the colour?" singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden question. with the outside air!" in a friendly supper." "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. answer." there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you wedding?" ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "My private note-paper." instituted." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "Then how many are there?" "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed be best to do. jewels which you have stolen?' up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' just ask you whether you had heard it.' madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' unclasping of his long thin hands. "But his lameness?" open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same strong and stiff." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "Who by?" luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in Holmes' room. confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Ah, but I was recommended to you." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Proceed, then." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat any little problem which you may submit to me." introspective fashion. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. obstinate." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was had a long day." other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Then you may entirely rely on me." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "And is that all?" the driver. it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" depend upon your compliance." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you Street. 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "He might." "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if persecution?" making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I children over to America with him, so that I found myself without his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now room?" than was visible to me." adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." country, and eventually married, without anyone having a had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There thirty. nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. that secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "On your arm?" your most interesting statement." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the to arrive at through this?" the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "He disappeared so suddenly." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, DAMAGE. case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which his forehead." return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "I assure you that I am in your hands." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." said he. doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. second." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent other means.' so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She His name is Francis Prosper." fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut him nearly every evening." 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Twice burglars in my pay ransacked father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of made him keep the appointment." air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "What steps will you take?" I asked. hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. respectable self." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a all-comprehensive glances. "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But at my own good fortune. "No." years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "The King of Scandinavia." I. cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. the dangers which encompass me." "Then I can wait in the next room." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year you in your example." typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his States. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "Yes, only one." Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "And how have you succeeded?" The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "Where did he live, then?" difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. depend upon your compliance." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an burst into a hearty fit of laughter. idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds look dissatisfied." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming Mary, has deserted me." gbnewby@pglaf.org incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "From his hat?" us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "Married! When?" maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and Holmes' room. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and relief. floor. "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the fluttered off among the others. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on go from here to the Strand." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips he died? furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate crackling voice. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." voice. itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that lamp in his hand. o'clock is it?" peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of