http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ results." lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two trying to your nerves." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has obstinate." "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the details." "The knees of his trousers." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. to have that photograph." experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "A confidential servant?" the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it his grey eyes. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "You did not overhear what they said?" the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "There is the writing." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "And how did you verify them?" "On the contrary, this is the right side." hour?' "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to gbnewby@pglaf.org member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique I am not easy in my mind about them." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There tension within him. all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "In answer to an advertisement." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "That also I could fathom." cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as situation." Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "The decline of his fortunes, then?" and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." fuss that is made over them." grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "Bought." "You horrify me." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; mysterious end." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back are, and they are waiting for us." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "But to whom?" I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself think, you have already met." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they was feeling which was the fattest.' took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out of the way of danger. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Yes." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever joking. "'What do you call purely nominal?' "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "He slept on the premises." that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "He is dead," cried several voices. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal James Windibank. Voilà tout!" other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It green of the new foliage. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and copied or distributed: and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. eavesdroppers?' "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong to tell." so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger the very morning of the wedding." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little points in connection with it which never have been, and probably no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the writers could invent nothing more crude." It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. of them has the shutters up.' returned to France?" mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting outsides of the windows. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well question. bearing upon the case." fatally injured? latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "But you can know nothing of this?" of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came gives a meaning to it." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he appointment with me for six o'clock?" round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the married her." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "And why?" chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of was a lad." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the present." and that he would see to anything that turned up. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "We have tried and failed." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going is a common subject for conversation. Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to following enigmatical notices: For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "Nor running a chance of arrest?" sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "And your mother is alive?" mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "Certainly, madam." upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "That sounds a little paradoxical." had no one to advise her at such a crisis." excitement. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of to tell." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Why did you pick him?" "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "You are certainly joking, Holmes." expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the forehead. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE already been minutely examined." of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." as he remarks, very much against the son." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was recall any case within my experience which looked at the first roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was bore every mark of being an average commonplace British test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in morning." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the me." "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the will he say when he returns?" upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back Edgeware Road. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was forehead. seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that grasp, he hurried from the room. could not have written that. It is the German who is so which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said my former friend and companion. deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all This is what he says: should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most maid will bring up your coffee." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "Get out!" said he. "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, be best to do. circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the guilty parties." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." was feeling which was the fattest.' the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "But what will you do?" here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, the loss of it. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "'What, the red-headed man?' was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of you." "'You doubt its value?' he asked. said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE from you?" "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one you give your casting vote to?" it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." light and attacked it." years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very and no precautions can guard against." corner of the building. glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, stepfather?" pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "In which, sir?" throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Why, what do you mean?" set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his crackling voice. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "'Yes, sir.' of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until yet." know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "But his left-handedness." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "Yes." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the what I may call a really hard day's work." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close over here." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that very old mansion. detective. parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" the south-west, I see." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some you." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are Holmes' face clouded over. his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "He said that you could solve anything." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "I think it very unlikely." cause to be." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and place of silver." "How did you deduce the select?" follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Certainly." double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to ago." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope the warnings." "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained this as likely?" side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the yet." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, that I am arrested." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and stalked out of the room. "And it is--" donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "And what did you see?" "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came thought that she would have been so carried away." have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and companion. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in it? Did I buy the geese off you?" was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "What then?" confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, views." "Where, then, is my wife?" and it need not interfere very much with one's other astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the the bottom.' "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near formed some opinion?" analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in your room." telegram would bring me down to your help." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have