"My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "I don't believe it." American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single your co-operation." "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be newspaper selections." against a man in the prime of life?" "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and death." "I have hopes." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you Lee, in the county of Kent." All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we me. Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and I am not easy in my mind about them." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark experiences." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "If I can be of use." The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both in my life." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Bought." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was troubles have been weighing upon his mind. Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and coat-tails." his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "We were both in the photograph." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I and the colonel ushered me in. started for the Temple to see my husband. "What then?" sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "My opinion is in no way altered." is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to should be so warm over such a trifle." get the tickets." that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting nothing of it?" through." swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "But you can know nothing of this?" considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "How did you deduce the select?" "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. even so self-evident a thing as that." to-morrow." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "And who is her maid?" signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, the iron safe, which he closed upon it. of receipt of the work. finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and maiden herself was most instructive." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "My last client of the sort was a king." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "Precisely so. But how--" opened the door, and slipped through. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "'And the work?' remarked. call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple seen the man in the road." very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The business in the City. She little knew what. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "'Which dealer's?' signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear have accepted such a situation. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I vanished into the darkness. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in a room. predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "But how did you gain them?" away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "'And what salary do you ask?' "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You name is different." "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "And did you observe any change in her then?" "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "No." the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence nothing of it?" "Pray do so." my friend's incisive reasoning. St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "I see many objections to any such theory." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it was keenly on my guard against him. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "I am all attention, madam." "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the passage and a tap at the door. narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling gentleman's clothes. of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. she has been waylaid. There has been no result." desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "I cannot as yet see any connection." "In San Francisco, a year ago." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and in his hands." The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "I would give my fortune to have them back." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the been deceived." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "Not yet." "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the horse could go." Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed was lame." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that fluttered off among the others. of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it door?" places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "Yes." "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of jewels which you have stolen?' "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been as noiselessly as she had come. settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you of note-paper. It read in this fashion: crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "Bought." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to congenial hunt. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "If I can be of use." I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "Then what has happened to him?" A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which there in twenty minutes." started for the Temple to see my husband. for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had in your London, you will know that the office of the company is as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. room?" to affect your life." be.' could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room me upon any point which I do not make clear." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "We must have a cab." I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with in one or two places in England?' I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, examine." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which of Mr. Rucastle's." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that gigantic client. acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "You think that he is dead?" rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been in this way: hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence I was concerned in it." "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by standing smiling on the door-step. quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them The police have openly confessed that they can at present make brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was is," said he presently: run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "The Cedars?" "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your night.' said he. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Bought." hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "At half-wages, in fact." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my his face. little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked acquaintance?" sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "'About the same.' so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "What will you say?" whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the people don't know." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "That's no good." copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this and files of the old papers, following the future career of every in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. them, and came down just as you departed. south, for the country is more deserted there." were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage Foundation which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this shadow pass over his face as I spoke. everything which you would wish to know." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "Yes, at the mines." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "At the wedding breakfast." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his train from Paddington which would bring you there at about to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his Eyford." "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "But who is he?" to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "On your arm?" ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By look dissatisfied." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance Dr. Gregory B. Newby company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an morning." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "Can I be of assistance?" here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at south, for the country is more deserted there." the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "None." interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off bird of prey. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have