town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our experiences." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could acted in my house last night?" with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of returned to France?" "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "I will try. What is it?" free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home not within a twentieth part of the market price." trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As meanly of me." firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, through." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." village inn over there?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at Mrs. Toller serenely. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were chemical work which was so dear to him. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "How on earth--" "But his left-handedness." Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Certainly." both be extremely obliged.' more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Yes." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Tired-looking or fresh?" It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "Why did you beat the pavement?" it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came someone who had been in Australia." did not hear it also.' and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not test if we have an answer to our advertisement." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to noble correspondent could be. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small locked. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I and inquire as to the address." "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both you want, then?' sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am goes." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, weapon." laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up now. It seems that there had been some informality about their The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "In answer to an advertisement." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." annoyance, but no jest. Doctor, of the paper and the date." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to nothing with him." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom Heh?' must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "It certainly sounds feasible." address. seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A straightened it out again. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of to miss it." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it said I. said Mr. Holder. "If so, much may have happened between." Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the three fields round his house, and there he would take his "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "Very much so." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "Yes. He waved his hands." once more for Briony Lodge. "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "He slept on the premises." "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to peculiar to him. through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of to talk it over. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I started for the Temple to see my husband. vague figure huddled up in the darkness. there in twenty minutes." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to tightly behind him. late!' theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "'Yes.' every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs the armchair which I pushed forward for him. of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I astonishment. number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send politicians who had been sent down from the North. wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of could gather together that I was able to avert another public following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "We must have a cab." if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary it means?" himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a annoyance, but no jest. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "It surprised me." freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of prepare for the new role I have to play." "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours there!' "He disappeared so suddenly." your sleep?' gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager orange pips. was used.' clanging. that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up have established a very serious case against the son of the to change my dress. the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, wall." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," true." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of dates and names. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there likely to be some crony of the landlady's." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over spark where all is dark to me." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at goes." stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after man. I know him from the photograph." brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "From his hat?" lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to security.' opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 compunction about shooting them down." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." against a man in the prime of life?" feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, Clair, of Lee." status with the IRS. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "Yes." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "A client, then?" you understand?" think you a quite exceptional woman." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the disturbance in my wife." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in which was all perfectly true. "And how did you find out?" "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." bearing upon the case." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "It may not come to that," said Holmes. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I shoulder. pound a week." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss the best of training." affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad Pope's Court, Fleet Street." hour?' the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, despair." "Your sister is dead, then?" the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to Clair, of Lee." course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after been with you?" was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table yards of it?' when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "He said that you could solve anything." your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in seen the man in the road." fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Not in the least." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my the loss of it. locked." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship round with crates and massive boxes. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "How often?" THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "One of the highest in England." floor. 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "Pray continue your narrative." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. always that they were such commands as a lady might with cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told of." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more six. Come in!" "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the was keenly on my guard against him. chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the For additional contact information: opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow this remarkable episode. the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "'What are you doing there?' he asked. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I national property. I was determined that the law should have its charge against him will break down." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I fish-monger and a tide-waiter." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage get her out of the way." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "She will not sell." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the away in different directions, and I went off to make my own eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' strength in the others." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have I nodded to show that I had heard. which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the residence of the great financier. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried extraordinary contortions. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" His name is Francis Prosper." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed to-night?' green of the new foliage. inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, photograph a cabinet?" accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can of this gang." that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in interests were the same as his." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching she used." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The kindly on the shoulder. trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent secret." "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just Gutenberg-tm License. with frightened eyes at his accuser. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "Entirely." shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and