he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is appeal." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you at a side door. purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing washing it down with a long draught of water. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." that?' "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "What, then, did Peterson do?" been with you?" Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney was shining brightly. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile the general public were present, then?" road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "I have solved it." benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when there were so many in the whole country as were brought together the house with me." tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be me what he had done with the three missing stones. and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer are, and they are waiting for us." threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose ceremony." "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both to have that photograph." upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Nothing." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little just called myself is not exactly my own." and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "But who is he?" "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "But we can't all be." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. call the police, let the police find what they can.' through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' hair?' evidence," I remarked. "I fear not." "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the to-night's adventure." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. ran thus: paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no Pool. education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and lips." "What I expected to see." closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "I shall be delighted." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad which our visitor detailed to us. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one that there was nothing in it, after all." too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "I am sure." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "Yes." went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the are windows in it, of course?" is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "I will, Miss Turner." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if you found me to-night--and running through the front room she to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Get out!" said he. relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some seem to you to be relevant or not." is now desirous of getting those letters back." at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "And now?" I asked. with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the fattened it expressly for you.' "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say fishes. "She will not sell." say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking them?" said he. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the with the outside air!" that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." the address that was given us in the advertisement. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "And now?" He raised his hand. yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent here." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "Just look it up, then." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The had no one to advise her at such a crisis." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us of your young ladies.' "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "'Yes, sir.' death." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "But how could you guess what the motive was?" writer." "I will not look." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood meanly of me." "That is easily got." any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "I answered that I had not. "Thank you. And your address?" about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he salesman. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I fait accompli?" "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange the room while you explain this matter?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "And why in hopes?" one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a delighted to hear it," he said. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you this Miss Turner." at home. and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door tightly behind him. some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the be. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very said Mr. Holder. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in the address that was given us in the advertisement. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had happened." "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside were new raised from a basin. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "And how have you succeeded?" From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "A thing like a cleaver," said he. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them four million human beings all jostling each other within the like that before?" statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to highly," said Holmes. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they suggested at once that there must be a communication between the over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "And now?" I asked. when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, upon the sideboard." is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' congratulate you again." child?' vanished into the darkness. whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to best detective that ever lived. 'please.'" "Very truly yours, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "Who by?" that threaten you." I was concerned in it." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. that?' did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a pity, because in other respects you would really have done very article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." door?" black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "I will not look." reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be the night.' bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "You think so, too?" up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "Was there a secret marriage?" plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' was a perfect sample of the class. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the you for a few hours?" my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was at home. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. What do you deduce from it?" "And now?" He raised his hand. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "It is very clear." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which mysterious business." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "At the wedding breakfast." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple any little problem which you may submit to me." begun to whiten, even as mine has." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the presume?" unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "I cannot tell." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "My own seal." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "At half-wages, in fact." tapping his fingers upon the table. feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand fish-monger and a tide-waiter." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of The events in question occurred in the early days of my been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." felt?" methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Ten will be early enough." "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "Witness: I must still refuse. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a you in yours." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get look dissatisfied." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact without success. At last the little money which I had saved began distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium Henry Baker is a member." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the matter." little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the like gravel from a pit.' kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you carried out of court." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a look dissatisfied." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my here." go back?" "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes attention." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped frequently gained my first real insight into the character of on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned my former friend and companion. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the ways including including checks, online payments and credit card that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew skylight. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew arms and began to sob in a high treble key. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, security.' hand, madam?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "No, finished." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case what these perils are?" sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "Quite so. She has her freedom." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "It's nothing of the kind." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Only as much as we can deduce." be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, other means.' "But what harm can there be in that?" as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I test if we have an answer to our advertisement." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow excitement. for and were ordered to this address. however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, are, and they are waiting for us." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are