doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep the matter?" the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the fishes. "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside October 9, 1890. two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "You have but to name it." beyond words. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "No legal papers or certificates?" approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "Quite so." said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." wedding?" "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the with some details as to your case." many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he affection." "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." affair. "I shall be delighted." "And how did he make his money?" of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed ashen face. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I keep the flames under. erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I weapon." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of secret." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the this Miss Turner." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps it means?" "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you roused himself from his reverie. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the in darkness. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. the coronet in his hands?" "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "Pray be precise as to details," said he. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "My stepfather's business papers." and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit this truth that in these little records of our cases which you called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank think that he is innocent?" "My private note-paper." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most at my remark. light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "What office?" protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening late." could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm it." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. furiously. tail." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up kind enough to tell me what I should do." and looked back. "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "And what then?" my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' thin legs towards the fire. her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and that the gas is not laid on in his house?" you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I enter Dr. Roylott's room." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last congratulate you again." justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "Stolen, then." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "'And the work?' of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "But you can know nothing of this?" whole matter to your consideration." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "If so, much may have happened between." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman your bag." "That sounds a little paradoxical." Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I maid will bring up your coffee." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "'In my own bureau.' The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and place no limit on the sum I may draw." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "Yes, the wine-cellar." down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing comes from the middle window." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has the window, rose as we entered. "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the unclasping of his long thin hands. visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to gone. train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." seven miles from Eyford Station.' season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no get the tickets." frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, giving me time to thank him. am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands instituted." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "Do you know him?" in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "Yes, from Horsham." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a ways including including checks, online payments and credit card and the whole place is in a blaze." house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I to take care of herself." the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. observed. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident ways including including checks, online payments and credit card takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as nice household for a young lady." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "How on earth--" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you own family. door?" There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "It is no ordinary one." "My dear Holmes!" her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, shag which I had seen upon the previous night. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim him and tried to hold him back. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried had died away into the silence from which it rose. graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss detained." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken went to the Alpha were town bred." quick march!" unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a goes." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to it." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of the window, rose as we entered. struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "'I am sure that I do not know.' paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer shall use the carriage to-night." on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first entirely lost his self-respect." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "But he might be a bachelor." undoubtedly my uncle's." the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the 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 our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "Very truly yours, brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine of the way of danger. "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." despair." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." views." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which conclusions. she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "My photograph." you." bird of prey. revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are woven round him. "Perhaps I have." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you fatally injured? creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "When did it break out?" fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven not come at once?" he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was dates and names. "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his without success. At last the little money which I had saved began branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, of the way of danger. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a ill-usage at the hands of fortune. bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can criminal. We have already had experience of such." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "'As governess?' search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the records." man. "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle your sleep?' "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would case before our client came into the room." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. criminal. We have already had experience of such." mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. habit of advancing money.' twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** dear old homesteads?" "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I fat-encircled eyes. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "No." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "Where is it, then?" hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments memory. moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point is worth.' "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "Have you it here?" We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "Here?" paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." depend upon my doing so.' really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the the south-west, I see." he. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and photograph a cabinet?" better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to there when the Rucastles went away." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and intrusion of other matters." took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once into the room. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "What!" he roared. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "How did that help you?" be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who that before taking the final step I should like to submit the