"You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an overpowering excitement and concern. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "No legal papers or certificates?" himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted read over the extraordinary announcement. time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "Ample." morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw come either from the window or the door. My attention was "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "I would pay ten." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we showing my impatience. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every ran thus: slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed was a loud and authoritative tap. while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "The best possible." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised against a man in the prime of life?" however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which papers must be those that are destroyed.' "So I heard. You have him here?" predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." that I am arrested." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' cause to be." there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in me where it went to?" father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "Why serious?" In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope that you saw all that I did." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." outside." "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men held up the lantern and gazed about him. very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "Awake, Watson?" he asked. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "'Never.' man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when business?" "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by your own bird, so if you wish--" inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' there." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any to-night?' which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "You are hungry," I remarked. significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of that, and I came down." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted to me. overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "No." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent to go into your room and bar your shutters?" freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they clang of the bell. "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "'Yes, it was gone.' affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you been deceived." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the know what is wrong with it.' "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective works. See paragraph 1.E below. questioning and rather startled gaze. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I attention." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "You forget that I know nothing about it." father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There on re-entering her father's house?" "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. public press." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "'Certainly not. But why?' "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great and your relations to her." into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly them?" clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, exactly what you advise." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what could gather together that I was able to avert another public Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "Murdered?" "What then?" the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon without a word or a look. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your is entirely a question of barometric pressure." This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." figure." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "Who by?" "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny the little opening for the ventilator is." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his http://gutenberg.net/license). It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late absolutely follow my advice in every respect." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is habit of advancing money.' occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." to his chemical studies. am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "But what will you do?" "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." certainly do as you advise." an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "But we can't all be." "And you can do nothing until then?" ago." you in your example." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and out of this horrible affair." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the should be so warm over such a trifle." "'Is 4 pounds a week.' man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "No, I had a dozen." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "None." of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of narrative." "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered and I shall be with you presently." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of point in the dark hollow of his hand. quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "I do." rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a test if we have an answer to our advertisement." corner of the building. "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has deduce something from that?" "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was companion quietly. "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would husband's writing, madam." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, Stoke Moran." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, it right.' think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "It is half-past ten now." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even friends, not even his own brother. stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" anything to a woman, for she would have her way." he. see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a place of silver." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong from you?" cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip him. was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "Why? What do you mean?" "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few time." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "The landlord of the Alpha." of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat absolutely follow my advice in every respect." himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he train from Paddington which would bring you there at about right! Sit down and let us talk it over." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in said I. swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "To the police?" but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. what do you think they found in the pockets?" uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend manager. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or your own bird, so if you wish--" in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of bonnet, and went out." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "What do you make of that, Watson?" "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, the loss of it. hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for open." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a directors, with the result that you have seen." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some 1.E.9. "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "You horrify me!" corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "You have compromised yourself seriously." vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Yes, he did." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured quickly through a disagreeable task. must be when I saw the door open.' "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of back to my heart. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "And I to find an enemy." "The best possible." its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "Yes, it would be as well." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the Holmes' room. "Precisely." "'It is locked up,' I answered. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "And your mother is alive?" in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant and laid it on the table. above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "Not particularly." I nodded to show that I had heard. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps But Holmes shook his head gravely. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought could not account in any way for the presence of the missing owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Will you bet, then?" master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "No, I am descending." In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "But I am all in the dark." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "And I say east," said my patient. body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "Eh? What was that?" "I shall be delighted." "Yes." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair stood on the top of it. States. foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he him nearly every evening." "Dirty?" and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "What, then?" "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence The note was undated, and without either signature or address. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during putting in the horse. "Then I can wait in the next room." step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "Then, how do you know?" opportunities to fix the problem. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was death." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold strong and stiff." league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, into her hand at the door and which lured her within their inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if eavesdroppers?' answered with a sidelong glance. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "No, my brougham is waiting." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a