"Where, then?" Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two that I may have something better before very many minutes are significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without key of the affair now." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "'Most admirably.' had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. take the flies, but not before." pity, because in other respects you would really have done very the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "My private note-paper." dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head only touch the interest." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. II. obstinate." empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the as the one I chose?' livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and closing the door. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "It is possible." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "The decline of his fortunes, then?" drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new to a more successful conclusion." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between weary and pale-looking. though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "You are hungry," I remarked. "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "9th. McCauley cleared. tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "No sign of it?" your bag." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "Just look it up, then." I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "Precisely." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "Ha! you find it so?" to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "Do you know him?" knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her begin with, and I had not got mine yet." it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek seen the man in the road." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he written, and locked the door of the office after me. "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "Thank you. Pray proceed." not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for of Fenchurch Street." "And why?" dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his better grown goose." research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do be there in time for your coming." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can have been better. It is all right." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and himself in a perplexing position. "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The delirious. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "None." "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been head. So long, then!" Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven the coronet in his hand?" "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found a monotonous occupation." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and compunction about shooting them down." "I fear not." "But I am all in the dark." "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out McCarthy." within hail.' "That's no good." "And from a noble client?" Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey lost his Christmas dinner." salesman. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. memory. of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would of note-paper. It read in this fashion: and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the letters?" its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "He might." see me here to avoid scandal." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "It is very kind of you." upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I entirely devoid of interest." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "My Mary? Impossible!" another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" recall any case within my experience which looked at the first screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Pray let us have it, for all that." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the coat-tails." at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which once more on the important position which you have been fortunate money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in get her out of the way." "One of the highest in England." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "'Tell me all about it,' said I. anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then Lee, in the county of Kent." 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat indiscretion." determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon and effective." would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "No." if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was were new raised from a basin. in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any Eyford." conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he to have been novel and of interest." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "At half-wages, in fact." hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At entirely devoid of interest." acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, you." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders the address that was given us in the advertisement. VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE father's place of business?" butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the appeal." His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in goes." all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so London for the present?" If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project see a sister of mine apply for." "I beg pardon." myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both chair. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "She will not sell." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and matter." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen learned something! Where are the gems?" "In answer to an advertisement." Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I next day. tied." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "Imitated." tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "My photograph." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Yes, at the mines." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a Heh?' "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove in darkness. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" done what I asked you, Jones?" after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Then I can wait in the next room." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before during which he might have communicated with his friend the "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have sparkled upon his finger. there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his his knees, staring into the fire. The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but colonel looking down at me. "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into envelope. matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some gone. Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "Her father is very rich?" electronic works "Yes, he did." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a meant." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their very old mansion. gone. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, fear." out." keep the flames under. "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached mysterious end." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "Not yet." coat-tails." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in memory. were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind in this note: red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen *** START: FULL LICENSE *** sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. charged with?" should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With noting anything else of interest. cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! subject to the trademark license, especially commercial to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "Only as much as we can deduce." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." to miss it." "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "I should wish to." my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this at once, for I have only half an hour." the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "I see no marks." its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, It may be so in this case, also." swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' you." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate situation." with the outside air!" "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third sufficient punishment." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Yes, I have one waiting." prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have just ask you whether you had heard it.' "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with outside." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "Then I shall certainly come." believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I nothing with him." arrangements." night.' said he. his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "I never have." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not all?" "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for would apply.' comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a behind me. violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had have been better. It is all right." the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" you." events, Mr. Windibank!" "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "But how?" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with not come at once?" you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and on in his house." "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" him, that man would not have given me such complete information she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her once more to my work. and the whole place is in a blaze." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old constraint." "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned,