hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Why, what do you mean?" the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It me upon any point which I do not make clear." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw shaken than I had ever seen him. sofa. This way, please!" surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and approach us with offers to donate. stood on the top of it. the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry the Assizes." "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" prepare for the new role I have to play." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, Where does the thing come from?' "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the families. Now for the facts. To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "But what is it you wish?" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "You heard nothing yourself last night?" individual and becomes the badge of a society." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "'How far from the body?' "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a might help us?" you." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "Dark enough and sinister enough." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "What!" he roared. glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it made him keep the appointment." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" sooner or later she must fall a victim. overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "Yes, sir." about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "I have solved it." Pope's Court. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That flock.' "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "You have compromised yourself seriously." "How can you tell that?" to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "Quite so. She has her freedom." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Yes." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about the very letters. But what is this written above them?' I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "No, finished." arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "Which surely he restored to their owner?" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given writers could invent nothing more crude." ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." third from London." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a a monotonous occupation." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have true." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed be sorry for having acted so harshly." it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try children over to America with him, so that I found myself without tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis present." the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said Again Holmes raved in the air. hard-headed British jury." the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The since then to throw any light upon what became of him." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, before, for it was considerably after midnight. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come which we had just quitted. "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" highly," said Holmes. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "That sounds a little paradoxical." "Then, how do you know?" have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, nonsense.' however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all morning." some terrible trap for her." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and power." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. case before our client came into the room." giving me time to thank him. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "A thing like a cleaver," said he. There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I union?" at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my you, my dear young lady?' "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that bonnet, and went out." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of to tell." in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "Yes?" "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "'Where could I find him?' like that before?" "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would whether it answered to the description of any of their "Then what has happened to him?" "Precisely." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we green of the new foliage. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Why did you beat the pavement?" brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "Then you may entirely rely on me." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "Where, then, is my wife?" mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "How are you getting on?" time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "Where, indeed?" I approached. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as triumphant cloud from his cigarette. into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" politicians who had been sent down from the North. shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of your only hope of safety." went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was than to us. many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when I think that I could be of assistance to you." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the tension within him. "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "I was certainly surprised to find you there." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of the house with me." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "'Is 4 pounds a week.' of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and business matters.' I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, gbnewby@pglaf.org which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even floor. The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and garden below. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "'Yes, sir.' might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he astonishment. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "Eh? What was that?" that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about be there in time for your coming." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that if only as a check to my own memory." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my States. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little could gather together that I was able to avert another public hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more could gather together that I was able to avert another public in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "Imitated." letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is out." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we purpose equally well?" However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "Then I am your man." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "Of what day?" game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is again, where I was soon asleep. should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of this unhappy family?" his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "In which, sir?" "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers thought that she would have been so carried away." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "You did not overhear what they said?" the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most have one." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "'What then?' I asked. the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Why did you pick him?" remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off official police." that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray will be renamed. "I should be immensely obliged to you." night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of opened the door, and slipped through. itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your notes," he said. exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "To an English lawyer named Norton." salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our matter." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is kind enough to tell me what I should do." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "But she will refuse." salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to himself to hunt down. up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, letters?" observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "None." "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, it with his own hands." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "No, distinctly professional." three fields round his house, and there he would take his lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "'Ten to two.' a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "But what will you do?" and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to at a side door. persecution?" left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was the one as in the other." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered the nursery. "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "Not in a good cause." as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "Who was the criminal, then?" "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was the matter." and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban to a light-house. initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "None." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most