"Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "'Entirely.' little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be companion imperturbably. any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that Foundation 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John highly," said Holmes. advice." shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like Holmes. he bowed and left the room without another word. lamp in his hand. "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. friend's singular character. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so John Swain, of St. Augustine. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I brought there to personate someone, and the real person is the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." nothing with him." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she in him." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could we went to search for him, face downward in a little "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went waste of energy." "What will you do, then?" deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be exactly what you advise." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "I see no marks." the general public were present, then?" "You did not overhear what they said?" "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman within hail.' "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he Have you good authority for what you say?" For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his indeed happy." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of than to us. was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and morning." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "In which, sir?" sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, Surrey." another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture in the port of London." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "Ample." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy in darkness. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "And your father? Did you tell him?" professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a here and I will read it to you: lips." recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "That is easily got." had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded page at http://pglaf.org than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking the best of training." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, maid will bring up your coffee." passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated and wait." looking up at the numbers of the houses." the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." License. You must require such a user to return or makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always in his hands." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. ready to-morrow?' clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Thank you. And your address?" "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." not as remarkable as your advertisement." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, the loss of it. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." sound at heart." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your standing smiling on the door-step. the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being keep the flames under. butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the questioning and rather startled gaze. dead, shall be safe with us." lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I was a loud and authoritative tap. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of would apply.' the running down." myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of the coronet at all injured?" laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "I am all attention, madam." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. fish-monger and a tide-waiter." at my own good fortune. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his have had none more fantastic than this." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was The summons was a brief and urgent one. arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so "'Yes, I promise.' McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, maid will bring up your coffee." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "And it is--" "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "'Yes, I promise.' side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may you understand?" ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there the room while you explain this matter?" upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "And leave your case unfinished?" I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to joking. about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "Was she in good spirits?" nice household for a young lady." floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence writer." again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a have been better. It is all right." Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with you for a few hours?" examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that to go into your room and bar your shutters?" can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. tapping his fingers upon the table. there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, bill, which interests me deeply." the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of to have been novel and of interest." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into too. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the three of the beryls in it, was missing. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was Holmes. me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself disturbance in my wife." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "I was afraid that you were engaged." Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "Where to?" gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "And you can do nothing until then?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. in his hands." last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One Holmes. layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of compunction about shooting them down." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; observed. Cross for the Continent." unprofitable." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits nothing of it?" dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has the so-precious time, but come!' comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very crackling voice. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too so.' with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "What do you make of that, Watson?" away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "I should like to see him very much." the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of directors, with the result that you have seen." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and humiliation." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here other means.' "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not yet." clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen questionable one." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in in this note: keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." enter into my head. "What! a murderous attack?" inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "You horrify me!" as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in enter into my head. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "Really! You surprise me." "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at him to be an active member of the medical profession." "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "'Where to?' Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per to talk it over. The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to events, Mr. Windibank!" was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in anything to do with the matter?" me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of the stable lane now." "Very truly yours, at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Your presence might be invaluable." "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as himself. For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which coat-tails." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we page at http://pglaf.org dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap opened a pocket-book and took out a note. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were placed his cuttings. familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "Your presence might be invaluable." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' ill-usage at the hands of fortune. When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the business at Coburg Square is serious." "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save never came back." like gravel from a pit.' was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in second window is the one that I jumped from." Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "Certainly." "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. answer." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "Yes, I have one waiting." "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "Then I shall certainly come." American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the you understand?" possible that we could bring him back to her? fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke back to my heart. man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "You are certainly joking, Holmes." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy waste of energy." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had frequently gained my first real insight into the character of congratulate you again." Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me