"We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. you." lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "But she will refuse." writing, and yet I know it well." "Have you it here?" was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying too. He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was letters?" "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' go from here to the Strand." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "Get out!" said he. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." disappearance of the bride.'" "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I there when the Rucastles went away." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "And your mother is alive?" "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "Certainly." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "To an end?" heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. "'Never,' said I. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more system of imprisonment?" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of sooner or later she must fall a victim. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the Countess of Morcar's?" to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would not fit the lock." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "Not social, then?" "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming crowd. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. nights." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water her also." "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent brain must have something in it." this unhappy family?" and laid it on the table. and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "Did you observe the colour?" said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "He slept on the premises." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that Street. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." beg that you will break it off." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "You have but to name it." "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "Well, but China?" "In which, sir?" was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his in darkness. machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases bearing upon the case." in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases woven round him. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "And leave your case unfinished?" well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "At what time?" "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to open." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to page at http://pglaf.org usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, the coronet in his hand?" room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "But not more so than I to find you." to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the had formerly been in part my own. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand chemical work which was so dear to him. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" money should be paid at once.' in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire nothing with him." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already people in all walks of life. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "You have but to name it." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been You can understand that this register and diary may implicate than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was Holmes. only touch the interest." crime." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in are, and they are waiting for us." faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the jewels which you have stolen?' There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, held up the lantern and gazed about him. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he know all about it," he snarled. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of get her out of the way." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with present." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes trying to your nerves." saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that considering the formidable letters which were received by himself treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go over with notes and figures. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and subject to the trademark license, especially commercial of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "It goes to the housekeeper's room." is worth.' me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so definite end. such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "A confidential servant?" the roots. in one or two places in England?' "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" characteristics, but those are the more obvious." seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "'Most admirably.' her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would charged with?" "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, within hail.' business in the City. She little knew what. am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. mystery may be cleared along those lines." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." the coronet in his hand?" there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step face and glided from the room. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a voice, changing her seat as requested. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but that I am arrested." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with in a very precise fashion." her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, individual and becomes the badge of a society." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with to tell." depend upon my doing so.' serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It be best to do. purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the question. pressing in one house as in another. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow just ask you whether you had heard it.' as this. Pray let me have the details." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little or other trace. But how on earth--" in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "Yes. He waved his hands." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this gone. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off one's self under obligations.' "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." investigation." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked depend upon your compliance." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, horse could go." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated had formerly been in part my own. should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "Never to return." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible Arthur Conan Doyle investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. were unconscious?" "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day the bottom.' Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." passage and a tap at the door. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." the ceiling. "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as about. have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which narrative." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips his forehead." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this from the brougham. adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I forecastle of an emigrant ship. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and amused." Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you burst out into a roar of laughter. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "None." "How do you know, then?" of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Did you become engaged then?" Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "Your sister is dead, then?" "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "What have you done?" asked Holmes. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "But you have hopes?" nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the which I could not give. He asked for Alice. the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see started for the Temple to see my husband. "But it has twice been burgled." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Indeed! Whose, then?" second window is the one that I jumped from." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to country, and eventually married, without anyone having a This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with your only hope of safety." the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge orange pips. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn new acquaintance to Baker Street. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that would then never go into court at all." "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or wall." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for have been better. It is all right." plantation.' all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to indiscretion." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. opportunities to fix the problem. which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, ran thus: rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to in this note: As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to late." "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite your own bird, so if you wish--" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "Oh, yes, easily." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however,