and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter made him keep the appointment." been shamefully used." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the business?" and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "And the murderer?" how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same http://gutenberg.net/license). upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "I was sure that I might rely on you." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen what I may call a really hard day's work." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It approach us with offers to donate. "But it has twice been burgled." the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your yourselves in at night?" would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see invisible to me," I remarked. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke you." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It companion imperturbably. "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. discontent upon his features. what is your own theory as to what took place?" very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, happened." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had pity, because in other respects you would really have done very be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us to-night?" I asked. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "You forget that I know nothing about it." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a unkempt, staring out at me. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "I see no marks." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "Married! When?" once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us for the market.' Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "None." 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a appeal." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, it." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can hour?' have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid assist you in forming an opinion." the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I hour." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "Yes, I have one waiting." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to business in the City. She little knew what. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was such attractions and accomplishments?' "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions maiden herself was most instructive." And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' are windows in it, of course?" cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "What steps will you take?" I asked. remarked. cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back which our visitor detailed to us. place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was indeed happy." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after few hundred pounds.' very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it *** START: FULL LICENSE *** whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, miles off. It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we during which he might have communicated with his friend the himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "Then what has happened to him?" the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "'Stolen!' he cried. "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing keep the flames under. homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "She told me to ask you." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Could he throw no light?" only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Yes, that is the Crown." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own bachelor.' something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." the stones. customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and just ask you whether you had heard it.' brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." question. fled together." neither fascinating nor artistic." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the I took the paper from him and read as follows: showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "Did you become engaged then?" I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "I see no marks." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where populous neighbourhood." leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their and it need not interfere very much with one's other "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "Dark enough and sinister enough." ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so of Fenchurch Street." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of absolutely follow my advice in every respect." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." McCarthy." frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich was a perfect sample of the class. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "Precisely." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's to where he stood hid behind the curtain. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I our word." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of prison!" Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "The King of Scandinavia." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Yes, only one." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they existence." Serpentine Avenue. "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but hardly wander." never came back." key of the affair now." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's held up the lantern and gazed about him. after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the of receipt of the work. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of wedding?" the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Who was the criminal, then?" photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "Yes, I have one waiting." which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my cigars in their mouths. she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without forbidden door. gbnewby@pglaf.org him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his the south-west, I see." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Murdered?" "Absolutely none." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "It is very clear." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face attention." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Always." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a arms and began to sob in a high treble key. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with disappearance of the bride.'" the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." purpose of examination. and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it hopeless attempt at recovering them." statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I "Can I be of assistance?" "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "She showed me, as I told you she would." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The the devil!" "The best possible." Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of wall." spark where all is dark to me." "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly of it with the greatest attention. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "You have a clue?" time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat in one or two places in England?' I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical that I am arrested." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "No, I am descending." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared congenial hunt. and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "At half-wages, in fact." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, newspaper selections." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Then I do not see the point." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large that you saw all that I did." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting astonishment. key of the affair now." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the this truth that in these little records of our cases which you home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative considering the formidable letters which were received by himself had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." this remarkable episode. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of dead, shall be safe with us." "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the face and glided from the room. Holmes." always that they were such commands as a lady might with in a very precise fashion." sneer upon his pale face. you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded at home. lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "'I am sure if I had known--' "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other Young McCarthy must be got off, however." make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email