heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it it? Did I buy the geese off you?" thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his stood on the top of it. disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "He said that you could solve anything." journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' think you a quite exceptional woman." his wife has ceased to love him." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. direction." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about DAMAGE. stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America as this. Pray let me have the details." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "Then I am your man." furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "What is it, then--a fire?" against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, outbreak?" money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" gentleman's clothes. however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and singular points about the case. What did the police think of the the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "I shall be delighted." the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "I shall most certainly do so." heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every entirely lost his self-respect." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my hour?' business." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "Very. But will he see it?" attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "Where, then, is my wife?" "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "And why in hopes?" "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever 'I should be able to look after that for you.' page at http://pglaf.org inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent the matter?" "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he back alive. defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be pressing in one house as in another. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the Edgeware Road. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush noise which awoke you from your sleep?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. himself. thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and characteristics, but those are the more obvious." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as your bag." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable investigation." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' knowledge of the world." "What?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly said I. "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." dead, shall be safe with us." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted fluttered off among the others. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" someone who had been in Australia." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. might help us?" that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it nonsense.' metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "Dr. Becher's." their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On come either from the window or the door. My attention was "To an English lawyer named Norton." approach us with offers to donate. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been the stable lane now." woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "Yes, I have one waiting." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed do you make of it all?" "Oh, the cause is excellent!" little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in purpose of examination. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which chill to my heart. quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an a good hundred miles off by now." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had my special province." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir arrangements." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her wedding?" "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm himself in a perplexing position. foresight and the moral retrogression?" where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Very. But will he see it?" bill, which interests me deeply." "It is solved." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to some water from a caraffe. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and events, Mr. Windibank!" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." indeed happy." connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and possible that we could bring him back to her? many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "And it is--" "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. go back?" have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the down. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "You horrify me." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of woven round him. events, Mr. Windibank!" rooms." "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "One of his hands." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the them, and came down just as you departed. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "Eh? What was that?" better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away the salesman. begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and instincts rose up against that laugh. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the http://www.gutenberg.net sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "Absolutely none." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped maid will bring up your coffee." recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend her also." down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been III. shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely politicians who had been sent down from the North. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. cup of tea. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of detective. dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same Does that suggest anything?" India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to taking in every detail of the apartment. Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the said I. the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous and put his glass in his pocket. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly matter over." is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "Very. But will he see it?" "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now o'clock is it?" revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Did you observe the colour?" "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" paper in the air. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' clang of the bell. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method foresight and the moral retrogression?" "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, she slowly sank and died without having recovered her the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress the best of training." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You not fit the lock." "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous miles off. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of seem to you to be relevant or not." "No, I think that I'll take it." "A thing like a cleaver," said he. John Swain, of St. Augustine. married her." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has the one as in the other." bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A go back?" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. into the bag, and made for the door. Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "'Very good.' will find little credit to be gained out of this case." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I shag which I had seen upon the previous night. Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. Chief Executive and Director "Always." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, Henry Baker is a member." teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. there is a decided draught." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "Seven!" I answered. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties there has been an enclosure here!" once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be that, and I came down." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "Which are?" "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep the ceiling. Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "Yes." back into the street. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "It was an hour's good drive." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I in the port of London." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger III. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "He disappeared so suddenly." drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "So it appears." second window is the one that I jumped from." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you crime. deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it works. See paragraph 1.E below. bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what hands. his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "If I can be of use." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to electronic works "Indeed! Whose, then?" waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he asked. front of me. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "Where, then?" "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long you." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "But to whom?" absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "In the cells." will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do woven round him. besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. into the bag, and made for the door. surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "A thing like a cleaver," said he. wife's character?" in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back guilty one." creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project second." "Certainly, madam." clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "What! You do not mean bodies?" he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. be sorry for having acted so harshly." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were