"On the contrary, this is the right side." my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "'Ample.' is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an carriage. It was a chestnut." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of security.' in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was garden below. "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" redistribution. questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank Street. companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "He said that you could solve anything." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "No more words. Get out!" who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. writer." Clair, of Lee." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "I think that it is very probable." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. congratulate you again." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated look dissatisfied." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter husband's writing, madam." been with you?" have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes that he will be back before evening." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope garden below. "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "What!" he roared. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry through." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "Yes. He waved his hands." "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a light and attacked it." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "That is easily got." tear off another piece?' incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "This photograph!" XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "So it appears." "I think it very unlikely." down in his armchair and closing his eyes. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, very peculiar words of the dying woman?" at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But to some other building. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a Project Gutenberg-tm works. strength." "I was sure that I might rely on you." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. hurried by. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who charge against him will break down." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand yet." delirious. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I were unconscious?" "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "'Certainly not.' is," said he presently: "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "It is half-past ten now." be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "And Miss Sutherland?" "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the him, that man would not have given me such complete information those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' interested in these little problems, and since you are good of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from presented which may be striking and bizarre without being years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow this man was intellectual?" conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary beg that you will break it off." "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. hurried away. than was visible to me." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies not personally threatened." upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "Certainly." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, companion quietly. and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "I warn you that they are very incomplete." the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained drawing your inferences." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "Really! You surprise me." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a Watson," he said cordially. considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Very truly yours, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made the side-table." and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which from you?" hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and four million human beings all jostling each other within the Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old strange features which were associated with the two crimes which you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed call for it in person on Monday morning.' leaning back in his chair. "I would pay ten." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "No good news?" shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her father's young wife. "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "Yes, he did." "Then, as to money?" another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether quickly through a disagreeable task. them present such singular features as the strange train of insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." bird of prey. machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly with you alone." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which tied." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you it right.' down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I outside." Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. papers." "'Yes.' often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "Then I do not see the point." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt this truth that in these little records of our cases which you forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! fear." side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when laugh and put his lips to my ear. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of with frightened eyes at his accuser. "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "Where, then, is my wife?" into the bag, and made for the door. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt hopeless attempt at recovering them." the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your companion quietly. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check were wasted." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of and the church but not where the lady lived." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "'And the work?' buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "You have compromised yourself seriously." interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "Come in!" said Holmes. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the to have been novel and of interest." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "But who is he?" myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of mysterious end." telegram would bring me down to your help." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows fasten all the windows?" "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "Yes." surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, was not a bird to be seen there. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some sentimental considerations in the background which would induce the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "The knees of his trousers." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "Bought." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "It is half-past ten now." description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; way in." wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the are, I think, all that we need." case-book, which he consulted. was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of works. See paragraph 1.E below. could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the floor. "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "What?" to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been arrested. You then--" "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "You have carte blanche." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "Pray do so." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he back into the street. monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and had a long day." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may for securing the situation." Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "You have the photograph?" safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to details should find their way into the papers. Inspector coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on lamp in his hand. a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time details." drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. upon the sideboard." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very only touch the interest." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until IS accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could seem to you to be relevant or not." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to which our visitor detailed to us. happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "Yes. He waved his hands." hardly wander." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." Have you good authority for what you say?" the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, of receipt of the work. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "That was it, sir." you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back place of silver." base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have retorted upon me, and I on you." "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. colour had been driven from his face. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern I leave." by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he south, for the country is more deserted there." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "Can I be of assistance?" Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major The summons was a brief and urgent one. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "I cannot imagine." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with back to my heart. "Dr. Becher's." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." daring than any effort of the imagination." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had been able to understand it, in a very few words. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House I have it here in my museum." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she Foundation "No, I think that I'll take it." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "Did you become engaged then?" extraordinary contortions. "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my approach us with offers to donate. "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows here." business." "A client, then?" to his chemical studies. Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready