"Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried The note was undated, and without either signature or address. opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the noble correspondent could be. morning." thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like ordinary clothes on?" abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "'Most admirably.' "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, daring than any effort of the imagination." very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. crime. step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, for securing the situation." had formerly been in part my own. which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "Deserted you?" the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. prisoner's face. father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "That was it, sir." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "No." "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "Awake, Watson?" he asked. is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that existence." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "And your father? Did you tell him?" thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without at home. which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each writing, and yet I know it well." "I answered that I had not. I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "I was mad--insane." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, know that the truth is known." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy to-night's adventure." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin is," said he presently: his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "Then you may entirely rely on me." "No sign of it?" Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came it right.' the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." the devil!" who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" directors have had misgivings upon the subject." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "I do." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "Where did he live, then?" the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman both be extremely obliged.' de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "'What do you call purely nominal?' although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer nothing of it?" takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the intimate personal affairs in this public manner." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for shoulder; "he's all right." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, nonsense.' there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at whether it answered to the description of any of their in darkness. "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and upon the white wrist. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated License. You must require such a user to return or get the tickets." time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have Street. memory. yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this developed." "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were The telegram which we eventually received came late one night 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, was keenly on my guard against him. beyond words. In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more third from London." "Never." home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. himself in a perplexing position. open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "Of Friday, June 19th." which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "I beg pardon." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then it." The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself over part of the map. "What do you read?" be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to train from Paddington which would bring you there at about For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "Imitated." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, nonsense.' was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon used to be." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made lamp. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an guilty one." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of companion quietly. lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "'I am sure that I do not know.' ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her union?" "An accident, I presume?" "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" standing smiling on the door-step. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "And you thought he was pulled back?" "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet gives a meaning to it." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "My opinion is in no way altered." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "No." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at indeed happy." depend upon your compliance." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "But you have hopes?" Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "Of what?" one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "'Never,' said I. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made hour?' same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "No." urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to horse could go." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "And it is--" too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little meant." sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been said he, "my real name is James Ryder." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Did he not advertise?" down. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. following enigmatical notices: at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as very morning of my second wedding." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a of them has the shutters up.' Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a God! What an exposure! What can I do?" Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and away in different directions, and I went off to make my own silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless know all about it," he snarled. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "One of his hands." gone before you can get him to hospital." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. ways of our fellow-men." "Upon what point?" Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "'Tell me all about it,' said I. hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a in the hope of finding them." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "My private note-paper." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Married! When?" discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been bird I ate is country bred." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of row." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of useful material for showing traces. The double line a little It may be so in this case, also." the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in families. Now for the facts. "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is both be extremely obliged.' only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "Nothing?" make me his representative both with the servants and with the "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. a monotonous occupation." rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some them?" my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Why? What do you mean?" "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself which our visitor detailed to us. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "One of the highest in England." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to behind me. delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after did not hear it also.' In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. tightly behind him. my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of said he. age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. the south-west, I see." safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his kindly on the shoulder. Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then works. See paragraph 1.E below. It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales subject to the trademark license, especially commercial all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something power." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the that you wished to speak to me?' Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "I would pay ten." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning several quiet little villages up there." determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "His face fell immediately. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "What do you mean?" Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very *** START: FULL LICENSE *** deduce something from that?" begin with, and I had not got mine yet." there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small that threaten you." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "No." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting that you can jump it.' before, for it was considerably after midnight. states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when purpose equally well?" Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name there." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though frequently gained my first real insight into the character of There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two which it had come upon my father." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with "But how will you look?" problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. an introduction to him?" standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, fait accompli?" any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, look dissatisfied." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a again on its way. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. national property. I was determined that the law should have its "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his been lifted and conveyed somewhere." have been better. It is all right." "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study said he, "my real name is James Ryder." careless servant girl?" returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought next day. "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "But the mystery?" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "That is unusual in a young girl." main points of my analysis." Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some been with you?" like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his had a long day." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "I cannot tell." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are of them has the shutters up.' and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You