assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was any more." morning." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the strength in the others." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I politicians who had been sent down from the North. terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "My dear Holmes!" glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, arrested. You then--" "You think that he is dead?" "Ha! you find it so?" companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had footfalls from the street. Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the danger is over." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." lips." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." business at Coburg Square is serious." then?" "Then I can wait in the next room." exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo morning." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Oh, the cause is excellent!" points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with writer." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, assist you in forming an opinion." "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending rooms." Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall or other trace. But how on earth--" occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we I think that I could be of assistance to you." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to will he say when he returns?" a good hundred miles off by now." "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "Do you receive much company?" he asked. Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed tell them apart.' anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "He slept on the premises." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of south, for the country is more deserted there." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or round and wave him away like that.' his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas pressing in one house as in another. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir questionable one." you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Yes?" "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to was shining brightly. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "In San Francisco, a year ago." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort him!" observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "And how did you verify them?" a monotonous occupation." here." anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one said he. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I is now desirous of getting those letters back." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for so far?" the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and noble correspondent could be. "You have a clue?" prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through to a light-house. use an arc-and-compass breastpin." straighten it?" about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, License. You must require such a user to return or Heh?' "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the ways including including checks, online payments and credit card vague figure huddled up in the darkness. that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm at my own good fortune. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' gone before you can get him to hospital." old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "I cannot as yet see any connection." foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of intimate personal affairs in this public manner." social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "I have a cab outside." was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "And from a noble client?" "My last client of the sort was a king." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" possible that we could bring him back to her? first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that closing the door. "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a good-night and bustled off upon her way. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us companion. wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his colour had been driven from his face. clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "Quite so." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless to some other building. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "Certainly, madam." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps the ceiling. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "But his left-handedness." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "'Oh, no.' what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It have one." can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "I was certainly surprised to find you there." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole once more on the important position which you have been fortunate forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Where, indeed?" before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, redistribution. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, could gather together that I was able to avert another public Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. note?" "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his him!" he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming have not had my rubber." drawing your inferences." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "It may not come to that," said Holmes. shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "Then I am your man." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an rat could hardly pass through." "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "May I see it?" pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on you." chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "It came here." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's "In which, sir?" of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to will not take me long to tell. Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. It may be so in this case, also." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Pool. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear see a sister of mine apply for." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the said I. were new raised from a basin. "How did you deduce the select?" of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was whole matter to your consideration." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy promised to bring home. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both the stable lane now." was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "I will not look." "No, thank goodness, she did not." the warnings." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to shoulder; "he's all right." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "I answered that I had not. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front unkempt, staring out at me. "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "What! a murderous attack?" and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and thought that she would have been so carried away." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the page at http://pglaf.org "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "Holmes, the busybody!" International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an most interesting one." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning we went to search for him, face downward in a little delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or Doctor, of the paper and the date." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "I cannot think." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being which I could not give. He asked for Alice. from the brougham. "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, my secret was safe in his possession. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "I cannot imagine." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King throat." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some clang of the bell. sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural fasten all the windows?" you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is nights." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "We have tried and failed." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "A call for help, you thought?" Heh?' course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was fuss that is made over them." method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "Then you may entirely rely on me." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "Nothing?" of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "Did you become engaged then?" sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was morning." just called myself is not exactly my own." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "What! a murderous attack?" rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning fuss that is made over them." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, said he. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And recover the gem." once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "And when will you call?" received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any hardly wander." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. with frightened eyes at his accuser. is worth.' will he say when he returns?" "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the you in yours." "Whose house is it?" it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with undoubtedly my uncle's." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now like gravel from a pit.' wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "Certainly." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I and your relations to her." reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I