in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for woman." We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we him. envelope. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "To the police?" protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "But she could not love him." can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich read over the extraordinary announcement. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical dramatic, in fact." nothing with him." "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had me." the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the enough to aid us in our search." office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and to miss it." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official galvanised. little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter business." heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "'You doubt its value?' he asked. fled together." "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "How on earth--" before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or foresight and the moral retrogression?" face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of yet." intrusion of other matters." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had never came back." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "I would pay ten." "Nothing." James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly "Will you go?" realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Not him." "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." wife's character?" companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to the coronet at all injured?" wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, golden eyeglasses. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which place of silver." tail." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we eat it." noting anything else of interest. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from that threaten you." empty. corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and the coronet at all injured?" Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. again." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "My dear Holmes!" more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, must compliment you." Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Pray do so." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a call it cruel." so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." man. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand shag which I had seen upon the previous night. the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in have had none more fantastic than this." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his sneer upon his pale face. "No?" my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it woven round him. be there in time for your coming." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but fatally injured? brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert be there in time for your coming." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A here and I will read it to you: against a man in the prime of life?" them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found hopeless attempt at recovering them." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close second." appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the soul! here is her carriage at the door." of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, a monotonous occupation." shaken than I had ever seen him. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic wedding?" was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "How can you tell that?" done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "And how have you succeeded?" you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers along the entire front of the house, with three long windows therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I confronted him. among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, directors, with the result that you have seen." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the said I. back alive. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm words came to my lips. off." fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), point our research must commence, and we will begin it by of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "How often?" in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend to-night?' "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "And did you observe any change in her then?" must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Then what has happened to him?" have been better. It is all right." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "No. What a strange idea!" grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense detective. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "'What, the red-headed man?' Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though placed his cuttings. and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "Dark enough and sinister enough." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from you found me to-night--and running through the front room she despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "My dear Holmes!" went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and enter Dr. Roylott's room." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. Gutenberg-tm License. he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It newspaper selections." "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "And how did he make his money?" little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Absolutely?" arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "Perhaps we may make them less so." old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and the running down." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a as noiselessly as she had come. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again me. usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you reach." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "Very well, sir. And this stone?" concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that things are very often connected not with the larger but with the little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a his face which made him a very different person to the round, became a certainty. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were system of imprisonment?" thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but there were one or two details which were new to me. But the had picked up in the wood. "It is possible." "Was the window open?" minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "I cannot tell." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "What!" he roared. which are rolled in Rotterdam." "Yes, from Horsham." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up most interesting one." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such indeed happy." "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your a very grave face. "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" careless servant girl?" DISSOLVED. that the gas is not laid on in his house?" But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very Eyford at 11:15.' teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled shadow pass over his face as I spoke. unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I happened." "I will do it." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." noting anything else of interest. door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing McCarthy's innocence. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection cigar and let me expound." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. carried out of court." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "I should wish to." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, the tragedy. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly kindly on the shoulder. and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see before, for it was considerably after midnight. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, matter." "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what might help us?" season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "Murdered?" buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves call the police, let the police find what they can.' word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is at a side door. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "What!" he roared. impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. a very grave face. in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "It is half-past ten now." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I once more to my work. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm breakfast." and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "Ten will be early enough." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "Have you her photograph?" means taking possession of that which another person has a prior money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, have not had my rubber."