"Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have remarked. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had approach us with offers to donate. Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary used to be." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "She told me to ask you." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case you in your example." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Witness: I must still refuse. window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and before, for it was considerably after midnight. "'About the same.' "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "Dr. Becher's." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "It is true that I have been generally successful." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more Holmes." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward of campaign. blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do very peculiar words of the dying woman?" where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of go back?" "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest business matters.' "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been gbnewby@pglaf.org these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable it." full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an ourselves in the office." full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an just called myself is not exactly my own." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and Sholtos." very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, train from Paddington which would bring you there at about drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round just ask you whether you had heard it.' "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, you came in." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into detained." which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." peculiar to him. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing matters immensely." Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then was shining brightly. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your and your relations to her." "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "Stoke Moran?" said he. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "It is possible." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "He disappeared so suddenly." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be not within a twentieth part of the market price." against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, to-night?" I asked. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "What then?" "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an noble correspondent could be. when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "Thank you. Pray proceed." thin legs towards the fire. said he at last. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual his grey eyes. gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that exactly what you advise." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the unprofitable." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, past. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." the ceiling. to have been novel and of interest." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "And you can do nothing until then?" "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' beyond words. expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. careless servant girl?" down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so chance at all." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able is four-and-twenty." Street. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained hand, madam?" the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step been anything against him. He had for years been known as a hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the down in his armchair and closing his eyes. his face which made him a very different person to the round, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." tell him that I know him to be innocent." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which Farm upon the left." "It's nothing of the kind." "And help." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon Mrs. Toller serenely. central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "Perhaps I have." have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not views." of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "'Quite sure, dad.' reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows Countess of Morcar's?" You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the very morning of my second wedding." they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout you in yours." pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" asked. with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "My dear Holmes!" galvanised. Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "Pray continue your narrative." said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is habit of advancing money.' an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "Yes." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering do." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. second window is the one that I jumped from." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "It is very kind of you." of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "Ah!" "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler relief. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "'Where could I find him?' "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must returned to France?" important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," at my remark. each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need village inn over there?" are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be characteristics, but those are the more obvious." disappearance of the bride.'" Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason this as likely?" disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was system of imprisonment?" spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "And I say east," said my patient. I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "But what harm can there be in that?" Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "Did you become engaged then?" tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "How did he come?" it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I other means.' "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and during that time.' situation." recall any case within my experience which looked at the first police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." train.' ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent at home. "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you the coroner come to?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now the coroner come to?" instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "Never to return." "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works of his shoulders. Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is following enigmatical notices: in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need and all of them with the keenest interest. to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just with some details as to your case." counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with bell. Holmes whistled. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "I am to be neutral?" finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, was shining brightly. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried strength." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he note?" endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one shoulder; "he's all right." compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "I see many objections to any such theory." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is other lovers by making love himself." "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned me. You must get home instantly and act." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Pray let us have it, for all that." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than now. It seems that there had been some informality about their cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I held up the lantern and gazed about him. willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "Pray continue your narrative." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and the side-table." Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "One?" daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of had died away into the silence from which it rose. this Miss Turner." a very grave face. A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "Not in the least." hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On nice household for a young lady." despair." might have a private word with us. the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" or in danger--" manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, Eyford at 11:15.' me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on I shall continue with my miserable story. gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and will take you up to see the machine.' London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "I have a cab outside." "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" hopeless attempt at recovering them." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I do you make of it all?" excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I entirely lost his self-respect." There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers his huge brown hands. which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing is entirely a question of barometric pressure." detained." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as weighed down with some great anxiety. "Have you her photograph?" as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." closely." "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his the coroner come to?" night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just fuss that is made over them." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the