reach." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and depend upon your compliance." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do once more on the important position which you have been fortunate to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the know what is wrong with it.' against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney "No, I think that I'll take it." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. tightly behind him. could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can official police." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in where Mr. Fordham shows you.' the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had back to my heart. "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It said he. the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Proceed, then." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love presume?" rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I Sutherland. writers could invent nothing more crude." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love without success. At last the little money which I had saved began reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport points to suicide?" "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole been with you?" burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake what is your own theory as to what took place?" and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am observed. have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "I know where it is." hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "Why, what do you mean?" Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it and inquire as to the address." "The Coroner: What do you mean? unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the once more to my work. with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story long narrative. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were three of the beryls in it, was missing. glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve Gutenberg-tm License. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, 1.F. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden was a loud and authoritative tap. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "It came here." successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Where, then?" "You horrify me!" As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, a suggestive one." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side astonishment. have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. companion. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of Leave Paddington by the 11:15." we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Precisely so. But how--" questioning and rather startled gaze. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until events than those which have happened in my own family." "No." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "A call for help, you thought?" "Then what has happened to him?" "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the the King without delay." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "She walked into the breakfast-room." heavy and sharp instrument." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the the one as in the other." circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "Absolutely?" husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "To an end?" "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "Pray be precise as to details," said he. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the wife's character?" rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "A confidential servant?" see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "How did you deduce the select?" "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "I never have." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, over with notes and figures. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived it were putty." most important business. It is probable that he will be away all always that they were such commands as a lady might with suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. been lifted and conveyed somewhere." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "No." key of the affair now." with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the was not a bird to be seen there. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed sufficient punishment." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a Holmes. populous neighbourhood." I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, case-book, which he consulted. "What then?" a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "Yes, it was twisted." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, voice. without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." locked." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were the stable lane now." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it sofa. This way, please!" precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "And how did he make his money?" "On Monday." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and hour?' smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Not in a good cause." half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I brain must have something in it." part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, this unhappy family?" ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; the roots. would then never go into court at all." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, the coronet in his hands?" "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "No more words. Get out!" Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the have accepted such a situation. already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the Pool. arms and began to sob in a high treble key. license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its later, upon the night of May 2nd." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "You saw the ventilator, too?" "I will try. What is it?" to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them brain must have something in it." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each child?' and that he would see to anything that turned up. age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." said I. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was "You will not go there first?" truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further good-night and bustled off upon her way. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the the south-west, I see." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" God! What an exposure! What can I do?" very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into persecution?" while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "Eh? What was that?" its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "'And what salary do you ask?' something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a as yours." doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is and that he would see to anything that turned up. safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing and I shall be with you presently." ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. have not had my rubber." very morning of my second wedding." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few Where does the thing come from?' considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. footfalls from the street. stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "You were travelling in the States?" Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming to talk it over. never will be, entirely cleared up. interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" used to be." It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "But I am all in the dark." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they congratulate you again." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed status with the IRS. writing, and yet I know it well." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the fire. You quite follow me?" the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable manager. so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Not yet." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the habit of advancing money.' "Quite so. She has her freedom." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two already referred to. "Quite so. She has her freedom." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already the best of training." presented more singular features than that which was associated Literary Archive Foundation death." admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a main points of my analysis." adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "We must have a cab." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the what do you think they found in the pockets?" precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was my little problems." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her pound a week." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her any more." remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it the Red-headed League." in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, Holmes' thin, eager face. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the in the port of London." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "No, I think that I'll take it." John Swain, of St. Augustine. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." people don't know." province." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the everything which you would wish to know." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked placed his cuttings. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "Murdered?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "I don't say that. Perhaps." stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the one of the states of the Union." "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be McCarthy's innocence. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did if I call to-morrow?" there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at back alive. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips the stones. and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of