across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "I was afraid that you were engaged." which we had just quitted. have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "No." "A client, then?" have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to putting in the horse. surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I things are very often connected not with the larger but with the I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have thought that she would have been so carried away." paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in our word." "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "On your arm?" us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a of his shoulders. hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, within hail.' against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "He is still with you, I presume?" lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening Young McCarthy must be got off, however." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me Stoke Moran." call the police, let the police find what they can.' "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no occurred." really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, other lovers by making love himself." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Stolen." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you again, where I was soon asleep. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "Entirely." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "If so, much may have happened between." "It was an hour's good drive." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the the general public were present, then?" "I have hopes." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the I nodded to show that I had heard. room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case confronted him. "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction approach us with offers to donate. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in there were one or two details which were new to me. But the outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming gigantic client. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it direction." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face The King stared at him in amazement. unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and sneer upon his pale face. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "At what time?" plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain imbecility!" he cried. did not hear it also.' "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. asked. both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this constraint." closely." "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in a monotonous occupation." We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked prove to be little relation between the different incidents of he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "Not I." "You don't mind breaking the law?" travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet present." trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "You think so, too?" young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few vault. "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her sparkled upon his finger. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all green of the new foliage. husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how true." union?" have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project married her." copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "I would give my fortune to have them back." what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "The decline of his fortunes, then?" and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very less than 26s. 4d. very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late I think that I could be of assistance to you." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "Who by?" "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as the coroner come to?" was feeling which was the fattest.' he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's could gather together that I was able to avert another public "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. interest. They are important, you understand, without being relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "And what then?" "I am all attention, madam." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "I was mad--insane." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side call the police, let the police find what they can.' "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw which we had just quitted. For additional contact information: reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "No. What a strange idea!" the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the as he folded up the epistle. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "No, I think that I'll take it." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated particular state visit http://pglaf.org the bed, and you in that chair." may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. himself to hunt down. Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "Very. But will he see it?" I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "What?" probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is excitement. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful because she had spent so short a time in this country that she acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it made him keep the appointment." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, was a loud and authoritative tap. connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "It is a murder, then?" bell. Holmes whistled. "Well, but China?" figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the open." where we are going." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "My Mary? Impossible!" out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, detained." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential other, as fresh and trim as possible. "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he and glanced through. cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb Count Von Kramm." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the soul! here is her carriage at the door." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the followed. surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is of the one which your family is now devouring." back to my heart. good for you to do.' "But how could you guess what the motive was?" go back?" and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came in my life." copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, detained." in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "He said that you could solve anything." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our British peeress.'" dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "It surprised me." cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "'In my own bureau.' writers could invent nothing more crude." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." you in your example." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "And did you observe any change in her then?" clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found bachelor.' neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the the so-precious time, but come!' pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third bedroom door." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect of the one which your family is now devouring." so.' "'What, the red-headed man?' "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be depend upon my doing so.' my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. article?" address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "And your mother is alive?" "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "So it appears." doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and to a more successful conclusion." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' answer." see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the soul! here is her carriage at the door." despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I III. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored weighed down with some great anxiety. Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was definite end. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "Pray do so." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw again before evening." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "It looks newer than the other things?" Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the even of instruction." "Whose house is it?" diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. said he at last. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "Not social, then?" only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the would apply.' firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "I never have." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." there when the Rucastles went away."