"Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried the best of training." standing smiling on the door-step. grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six chair. "It is possible." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in round with crates and massive boxes. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed generous with you in money matters.' prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and to affect your life." "You'll never persuade me to believe that." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the four million human beings all jostling each other within the of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "And why?" instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, pictures, libraries, or plate. "And how did you verify them?" "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle may have an influence upon European history." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "The gentleman I describe." bird I ate is country bred." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "That is not always so easy." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "And why in hopes?" through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one case-book, which he consulted. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was see me here to avoid scandal." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "I know where it is." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. hair?' starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "I am armed." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "I am sure." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets kindly on the shoulder. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular cheerful." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his think that any burglar could have done. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great that the gas is not laid on in his house?" a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "No, I am descending." because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the pierced for earrings?" of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the placed his cuttings. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free asked with his eyes open. there when the Rucastles went away." my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "But she will refuse." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "You think that he is dead?" despaired of." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered behind me. "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to seven miles from Eyford Station.' giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent very peculiar words of the dying woman?" o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a brain must have something in it." branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "No, my brougham is waiting." Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special security.' it means?" Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining chair. for and were ordered to this address. little adventures." "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "In what way?" asked Holmes. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "'Never,' said I. "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "None." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my is acting for the best. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California tell me that you intended to go into harness." assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "Thank you. And your address?" "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent the matter." the loss of it. "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "Texas, I think." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind residence of the great financier. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big it." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "My dear Holmes!" passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "I cannot say that I have." "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little despair." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "What can you not understand?" your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are But Holmes shook his head gravely. "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the matters immensely." tell him that I know him to be innocent." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say kind enough to tell me what I should do." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my nice household for a young lady." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "I guessed as much." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave there is a decided draught." Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "Stolen." pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and putting in the horse. wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the the south-west, I see." "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will down. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in several quiet little villages up there." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never second window is the one that I jumped from." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." four million human beings all jostling each other within the named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was one else, I think." we went to search for him, face downward in a little "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "How many? I don't know." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No wedding?" long narrative. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do felt?" had died away into the silence from which it rose. jewels which you have stolen?' "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "'No, I know no one in these parts.' which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by James Windibank. Voilà tout!" he bowed and left the room without another word. contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold down from London to inquire more deeply into it." reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "So I am. Very much so." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "I am still in the dark." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "Did you become engaged then?" after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' use an arc-and-compass breastpin." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "Then I shall certainly come." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of unclasping of his long thin hands. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred that he has suffered." see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "Proceed, then." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "And Miss Sutherland?" "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," it right.' "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, him, that man would not have given me such complete information uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "What, then?" had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." hour." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "Yes, certainly." said I. in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "I don't say that. Perhaps." "So it appears." whole matter to your consideration." direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations occurred." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand note?" "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I mysterious business." his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "Indeed! Whose, then?" caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "How many? I don't know." salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All into her hand at the door and which lured her within their wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "And the murderer?" would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. him." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "What! a murderous attack?" License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered seen the man in the road." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and following enigmatical notices: "No good news?" naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for Eyford at 11:15.' "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' characteristics, but those are the more obvious." three fields round his house, and there he would take his owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." pound a week." gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, footfalls from the street. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. not personally threatened." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's nights." "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end now. It seems that there had been some informality about their girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "It is to him that this trophy belongs." and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "In answer to an advertisement." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Of what?" was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in unclasping of his long thin hands. upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "Then how many are there?" her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You orange pips. round with crates and massive boxes. in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in conversation I have gathered that they have been married about Countess of Morcar's?" ventilator." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "How many? I don't know." down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what