"'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my night.' said he. call for it in person on Monday morning.' "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day cup of tea. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between friend's singular character. lost nothing by them." "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to His name is Francis Prosper." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "How often?" answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and Sholtos." "But of what society?" which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his vault. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is invisible to me," I remarked. was once confined in the cab my mission was practically light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we next day. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker affection." "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "'Quite sure, dad.' I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair which should have the effect of calling the attention of the DAMAGE. "How many? I don't know." which I could not give. He asked for Alice. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "10th. John Swain cleared. he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a you." which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be in darkness. stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen recover the gem." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a touch that coronet?' as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "'Most admirably.' upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "Yes." window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "It is possible." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "Very. But will he see it?" guilty one." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "On the contrary, this is the right side." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "Ha! you find it so?" would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "I have seen the police." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Come in!" said he. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the Holmes rather sternly. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a interests were the same as his." familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "Did your wife hear all this?" charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the indeed happy." against a man in the prime of life?" were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of arms and began to sob in a high treble key. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney a little more before I quite committed myself. grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right the roots. "9th. McCauley cleared. them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his detective. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "The Coroner: What do you mean? its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" examine." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "Yes. He waved his hands." have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent good for you to do.' as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has matter over." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Then you may entirely rely on me." "It is possible." your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS DAMAGE. turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a over with notes and figures. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "How did that help you?" I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable vault. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "I guessed as much." "Precisely." "Never to return." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "And how did you verify them?" Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "The best possible." swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand we went to search for him, face downward in a little "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on door?" "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away your bag." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "Certainly." original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean visitors." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke kind enough to tell me what I should do." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we then?" suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and shall use the carriage to-night." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying strong reason behind." ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email have one." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "Murdered?" coroner's jury." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "You know me, then?" may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "There is the writing." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my and the church but not where the lady lived." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper one's self under obligations.' Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only compunction about shooting them down." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which to talk it over. smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of and laid it on the table. him nearly every evening." came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social His name is Francis Prosper." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the get her out of the way." "'There is a drive, then?' Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much to-night?" I asked. "She told me to ask you." the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, had died away into the silence from which it rose. "Nothing?" near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the breakfast and whispered something to her husband. existence." d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his the south-west, I see." have got?" "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. shall not find me ungrateful." was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "But of what society?" whereabouts. "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming the inner apartment." in my life." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a Holmes' thin, eager face. "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in 'please.'" bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "My dear Holmes!" shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "I cannot imagine." that The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of purpose of examination. come either from the window or the door. My attention was against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Quite so. She has her freedom." Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "Do you go out much in society?" return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are I was concerned in it." I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "That sounds a little paradoxical." go--none." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great page at http://pglaf.org estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was burst into a hearty fit of laughter. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his my special province." 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. Does that suggest anything?" secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple hopeless attempt at recovering them." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what salesman. experiences." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "Precisely." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to fuss that is made over them." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "You are hungry," I remarked. which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are in the port of London." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "That is possible." this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His murdered man." threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "The Coroner: What do you mean? and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "That you are never beaten." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And there." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as golden eyeglasses. cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always lids now and glanced across at his visitor. correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed and no precautions can guard against." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to redistribution. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. leaning back in his chair. face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read again on its way. to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and business matters.' "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "By no means." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in burst into a hearty fit of laughter. were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. sake, don't!" "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "Is he quiet?" "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small your sleep?' reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but Eyford at 11:15.' reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his night.' said he. this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended you came in." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" cheerful." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" swore that no one else had been in the front room during the right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, tell him that I know him to be innocent." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which