"And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "Come in!" said Holmes. to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "Because he was handy and would come cheap." emerged. but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "Precisely." quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my could gather together that I was able to avert another public handed it to him. silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set you, my dear young lady?' souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "They are typewritten," I remarked. directly by questioning you." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. Lee, in the county of Kent." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very place of silver." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "I should wish to." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "On the contrary, this is the right side." But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square one of them." be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point have one." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural heavily into it. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, of receipt of the work. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front his face which made him a very different person to the round, Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House sit on the left-hand side of the driver." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "I say it is." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had fear." "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be straighten it?" "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you London for the present?" "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "No, distinctly professional." "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission shadow pass over his face as I spoke. unprecedented a position." and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was in the port of London." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking the room while you explain this matter?" companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner a suggestive one." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "I should like to see him very much." shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive attention." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your here and I will read it to you: "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a locked." midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this leaning back in his chair. "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest works. See paragraph 1.E below. a room. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "'Most admirably.' Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a coroner's jury." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project License. You must require such a user to return or disappearance of these gems?" "It is possible." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and she has been waylaid. There has been no result." before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to thin, with a long, sharp nose?" Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed "Her father is very rich?" "Oh, yes, easily." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the gentleman's clothes. "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not present strange and interesting features that it is no easy inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what ordinary clothes on?" "Then I shall certainly come." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." newspaper selections." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his once more for Briony Lodge. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "None. Neville wrote those words." you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "You forget that I know nothing about it." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "Yes, it was twisted." "Certainly." "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I *** START: FULL LICENSE *** Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a nothing with him." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees some city in a dream. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "Your presence might be invaluable." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from when you have done it." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which situation." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the carried out of court." We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and that screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have tell him that I know him to be innocent." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "Why, what do you mean?" money should be paid at once.' "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "Did your wife hear all this?" returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first any." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and colour had been driven from his face. "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "Dirty?" to his chemical studies. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There not within a twentieth part of the market price." room had already been engaged for us. the coronet in his hand?" held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Certainly." we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have not, dad?" she asked. without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly hurried away. "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "Did you become engaged then?" "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old geese which you supplied to the Alpha." observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "Perhaps I have." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to she slowly sank and died without having recovered her following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which place no limit on the sum I may draw." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, be there in time for your coming." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "Only as much as we can deduce." "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "'Is 4 pounds a week.' forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently eat it." 11:15.' of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my salesman. allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "Bought." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was as this. Pray let me have the details." something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether you, my dear young lady?' after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Do you go out much in society?" "Pray continue your narrative." charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or until night should bring an explanation. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "'Which dealer's?' not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which neither fascinating nor artistic." we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Her father is very rich?" woven round him. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "'Certainly not. But why?' by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out someone who had been in Australia." we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the go back?" "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "On the contrary, this is the right side." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "'Very good.' there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "But you have hopes?" heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide you for a few hours?" signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I had formerly been in part my own. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other must compliment you." considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger bird of prey. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "Always." of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "I cannot tell." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very unclasping of his long thin hands. He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "Well, it is a possible supposition." compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, into the bag, and made for the door. "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. in this note: a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "Precisely." PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK 11:15.' myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found had died away into the silence from which it rose. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom over part of the map. "What do you read?" LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first "Well?" Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may weapon." "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "And leave your case unfinished?" and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should case before our client came into the room." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past fatally injured? that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "I am sure." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for to have been novel and of interest." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "I will, Miss Turner." running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to out of this horrible affair." would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the six. Come in!" London for the present?" you, my dear young lady?' go back?" others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "But how did you gain them?" was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "And is that all?" "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. in darkness. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. room. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped from the brougham. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "Pray be precise as to details," said he. started for the Temple to see my husband.