seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "You saw the ventilator, too?" have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" crime. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "'In my own bureau.' "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry tied." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "It is very kind of you." have accepted such a situation. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work indiscretion." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. recover the gem." The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, in the hope of finding them." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an this remarkable episode. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would call you and give you the chance." to-night?' change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Who was the criminal, then?" cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "Oh, yes, easily." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is know all about it," he snarled. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular humiliation." into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger business matters.' robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master such attractions and accomplishments?' rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I he. introspective fashion. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. will find little credit to be gained out of this case." Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put main points of my analysis." footfalls from the street. if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his that you can jump it.' course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** jewels which you have stolen?' narrative." "What are they?" of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the obstinate." "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and look upon these things in a different way." "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the British peeress.'" I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "But she will refuse." the side-table." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he forehead. playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "I have a cab outside." hurried by. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away you?' Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "It is true that I have been generally successful." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. What do you deduce from it?" "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Quite so." clang of the bell. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the knowledge of the world." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his electronic works "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to exactly what you advise." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Yes, the wine-cellar." "I say it is." with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "To the police?" over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I the warnings." The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Has he come with you to-night?" platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "'Is purely nominal.' who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his that he has suffered." "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or come either from the window or the door. My attention was shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I begun to whiten, even as mine has." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked opened the door, and slipped through. "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "That is also quite modern," said the lady. while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in it. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "You forget that I know nothing about it." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in infinite languor in his face. Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, observed. That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "You think so, too?" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have bled considerably." and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words legal crime." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further what is your own theory as to what took place?" which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some in your London, you will know that the office of the company is surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "That is unusual in a young girl." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about My friend smiled. "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in Eyford at 11:15.' mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love Holmes' thin, eager face. cause to be." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were humiliation." elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in room. that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was presume?" about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case yourselves in at night?" little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you is acting for the best. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been character. red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was your bag." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into clanging. himself in a perplexing position. I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an she to prove their authenticity?" you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and call for it in person on Monday morning.' number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate the inquest, and which are worth considering." tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "Do you receive much company?" he asked. deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the not as remarkable as your advertisement." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came gone. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "To ruin me." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "'Yes, sir.' accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I upon a handsome competence. is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "That is unusual in a young girl." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now the tragedy. where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he down in his armchair and closing his eyes. He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "I should like to see him very much." Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "You have but to name it." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "And what then?" and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young persecution?" stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she populous neighbourhood." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran forbidden door. forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon foot. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "We must have a cab." We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short and capable of preserving a secret.' this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! unclasping of his long thin hands. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" this as likely?" it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I cup of tea. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "What, then, did Peterson do?" abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "She told me to ask you." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "It was an hour's good drive." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an main points of my analysis." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "It surprised me." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at which are rolled in Rotterdam." "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do shoulder; "he's all right." confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner a very grave face. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet residence of the great financier. such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away showing my impatience. and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining other means.' "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "I am in hopes that she does." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had Holmes rather sternly. "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would husband's writing, madam." matter." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography you?" the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it unprofitable." Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." business matters.' when your master had gone out." himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been electronic works understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would danger is over." "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his Sholtos." this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high it means?" occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "He said too much." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is had no one to advise her at such a crisis." his fortune, and I went back to pa. felt?" (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all must compliment you." bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and strong reason behind." keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "It must be recovered." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an companion quietly. to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round hands. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out this unhappy family?" "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention beg that you will break it off." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium this Miss Turner." criminal. We have already had experience of such." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "'Oh, no.' this poor creature." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I the one as in the other." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes should be so warm over such a trifle." of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always prepare for the new role I have to play." "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "Why serious?" became a certainty. eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, one else, I think." it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, singular points about the case. What did the police think of the on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid