and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. followed. also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed bearing upon the case." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, what these perils are?" straighten it?" pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "I think that I had better go, Holmes." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "'I have already given you my word.' cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "And that is--" was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "I cannot as yet see any connection." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "We must sit without light. He would see it through the disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most Edgeware Road. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when crowd. you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "What can you not understand?" Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "And for present expenses?" it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very to me. "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there It was close upon four before the door opened, and a it means?" he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to copied or distributed: widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "Then I shall certainly come." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There of them has the shutters up.' three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less foresight and the moral retrogression?" Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements was once confined in the cab my mission was practically did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you back into the street. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, have I gained?" of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, least a fellow-countryman. may never be exposed to such a temptation." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in of the one which your family is now devouring." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your o'clock is it?" I shall continue with my miserable story. determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Did he not advertise?" was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been the side-table." lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of fasten all the windows?" Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced my former friend and companion. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the delighted to hear it," he said. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a gentleman's clothes. Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A situation." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's and no precautions can guard against." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found to a light-house. not come at once?" the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "To the police?" "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" Pope's Court, Fleet Street." out of this horrible affair." other lovers by making love himself." him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses been anything against him. He had for years been known as a the address that was given us in the advertisement. with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke Edgeware Road. company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an the roots. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. fire. You quite follow me?" ashen face. supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the certainly do as you advise." corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. the room while you explain this matter?" "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "I would give my fortune to have them back." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "My dear Holmes!" trying to your nerves." the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." throat." "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. what do you think they found in the pockets?" usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a could not account in any way for the presence of the missing quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was character. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "It came here." "No, distinctly professional." "That you are never beaten." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "'Certainly not. But why?' You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "In the cells." paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' the little opening for the ventilator is." confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "'And the work?' "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a hour." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed father's place of business?" slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events the very morning of the wedding." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel you." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "How many? I don't know." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, signal between you and your father? bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "I say that I have solved it." has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "Only as much as we can deduce." easy-going way." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "No good news?" has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his derbies." "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Have you her photograph?" was feeling which was the fattest.' "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "Deserted you?" States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. some water from a caraffe. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "You forget that I know nothing about it." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be entirely lost his self-respect." evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "And you don't know his address?" "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "We must have a cab." Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done You can understand that this register and diary may implicate inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that me." "I don't say that. Perhaps." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him me." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have to that open window." without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. but preventing her from injuring another. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project present." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, presented more singular features than that which was associated "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is question," said Holmes, smiling. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "But of what society?" "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and with frightened eyes at his accuser. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know crime." Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "Now, then, what's the last entry?" wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the the dangers which encompass me." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "I should wish to." "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice http://gutenberg.net/license). I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the thin legs towards the fire. "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering my friend's incisive reasoning. once more for Briony Lodge. be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end not personally threatened." "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Who by?" I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "Ah!" words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential which are rolled in Rotterdam." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some Edgeware Road. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. the matter?" left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small chambers. of the vacancies.' Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "Of what day?" consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small husband's writing, madam." I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "I see no marks." "Frequently." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir used to be." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that infinite languor in his face. daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, intimate personal affairs in this public manner." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt I shall communicate with you." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been fled together." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think for the market.' "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said there." bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and indeed which he could not unravel. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open green of the new foliage. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his became a certainty. With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "And I." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet conceal it?" no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a my former friend and companion. there when the Rucastles went away." Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to him to be an active member of the medical profession." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would and inquire as to the address." even so self-evident a thing as that." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "Perfectly so." succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what