I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my the so-precious time, but come!' sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it seven miles from Eyford Station.' Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel my special province." "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." fluttered off among the others. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to records." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as What do you deduce from it?" yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while touch that coronet?' sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a to tell." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "'I have already given you my word.' practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "And who is her maid?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which you." strong reason behind." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that drawing your inferences." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little burst out into a roar of laughter. girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "'Ample.' as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes London for the present?" tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows this man was intellectual?" the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "Then I can wait in the next room." should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and enough to aid us in our search." never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "He is still with you, I presume?" layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling fishes. presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "But the mystery?" could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. constraint." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the very morning of my second wedding." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to It may be so in this case, also." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an so far?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "I will try. What is it?" analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from there has been an enclosure here!" them?" called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked call it cruel." prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided electronic works had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the and that he would see to anything that turned up. "I have come for advice." problems help me to do so." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "How did you deduce the select?" consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "I cannot think." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "That you are never beaten." I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church compunction about shooting them down." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler out." "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me to go into your room and bar your shutters?" the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon crime. him and tried to hold him back. place no limit on the sum I may draw." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but unclasping of his long thin hands. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." like that before?" one which it was hard to resist. very morning of my second wedding." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Quite so. She has her freedom." "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "I cannot imagine." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had to a light-house. I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "The Cedars?" long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the formed some opinion?" vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if breakfast." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow bird of prey. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to upon the sideboard." what these perils are?" "Where did he live, then?" a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have photograph?" is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' if only as a check to my own memory." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small some water from a caraffe. this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "Where, indeed?" "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "And your mother is alive?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I certainly do as you advise." One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. any little problem which you may submit to me." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. do.' surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, But Holmes shook his head gravely. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility away into the river." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press Holmes rather sternly. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a singular points about the case. What did the police think of the is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle public press." "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other served to weaken the effect. myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our delighted to hear it," he said. have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable so far?" "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called the bed, and you in that chair." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "Is he quiet?" little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into himself to hunt down. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "It's nothing of the kind." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, to-night's adventure." "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & be. little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, of Mr. Rucastle's." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did several quiet little villages up there." sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good disappearance of these gems?" of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "From his hat?" Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "It is very kind of you." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" leaning back in his chair. fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes Holmes." nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "Not in a good cause." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his friends, not even his own brother. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a this remarkable episode. do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, II. defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged the coronet in his hands?" predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. straighten it?" be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all that him. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "May I see it?" not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is in my life." rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks tied." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "What steps will you take?" I asked. the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "But to whom?" out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "I am armed." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "One?" this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own crackling voice. like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman useful material for showing traces. The double line a little from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said other lovers by making love himself." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior most important business. It is probable that he will be away all withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want and it need not interfere very much with one's other "Yes." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "And help." of his shoulders. perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to golden eyeglasses. "I have my revolver," said I. "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." bled considerably." silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "The vanishing of the lady." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a strength." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "Yes, sir." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the during which he might have communicated with his friend the as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." lamp. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven lost nothing by them." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. spare." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his The police have openly confessed that they can at present make already referred to. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm chance at all." sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." it." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "Where, then, is my wife?" and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw when you have done it." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." himself to hunt down. "'I shall certainly be there.' The telegram which we eventually received came late one night devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "Not particularly." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' For additional contact information: Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when I held the little printed slip to the light. awkward doing business with an alias." fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire dear old homesteads?" "This photograph!" week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have shoulder; "he's all right." pressing in one house as in another. as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "Will you bet, then?" am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your make me his representative both with the servants and with the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country upon an income of about 60 pounds." "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "An accident, I presume?" pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at in the port of London." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "No, finished." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now never will be, entirely cleared up. state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New I held the little printed slip to the light. "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not a very grave face. trying to your nerves." am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. over with notes and figures. going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." Surrey." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "What shall I do?" Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his peculiar to him. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly comes from the middle window." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the later, upon the night of May 2nd." information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at as yours." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, national property. I was determined that the law should have its had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a to-night?' gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to could gather together that I was able to avert another public "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have the one as in the other." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for