opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project morning." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the not within a twentieth part of the market price." the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "Not I." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still situation." The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "But you would not advise me to refuse?" because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are allusion to a rat. the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party go from here to the Strand." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of weary and pale-looking. He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to matters immensely." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "Perhaps I have." respectable self." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a directors have had misgivings upon the subject." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and way: made his money." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we my former friend and companion. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no there when the Rucastles went away." prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "'Is purely nominal.' noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. had died away into the silence from which it rose. "Then, how do you know?" it were putty." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among both be extremely obliged.' "I think it very unlikely." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Yes, at the mines." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover character. be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "What! You do not mean bodies?" hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own not come at once?" "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I The King stared at him in amazement. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my take the flies, but not before." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "Here?" bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of along the entire front of the house, with three long windows of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles detained." naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "Murdered?" stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case this remarkable episode. "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, you want, then?' "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." his cane at the bell-pull. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the giving me time to thank him. souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and brain must have something in it." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry Leave Paddington by the 11:15." The events in question occurred in the early days of my For additional contact information: Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at lectures into a series of tales." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "'What, the red-headed man?' formed some opinion?" others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece congratulate you again." the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his passage and a tap at the door. and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "An accident, I presume?" "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An could go. Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for quick march!" "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "A thing like a cleaver," said he. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. charge against him will break down." heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "You have compromised yourself seriously." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is you understand?" form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "I have solved it." himself to hunt down. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of south, for the country is more deserted there." "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. a little more before I quite committed myself. face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end orange pips. of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "What is it, then--a fire?" so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had held up the lantern and gazed about him. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "That is unusual in a young girl." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. was it brought him the coronet? are, and they are waiting for us." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "It is half-past ten now." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "I will not look." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" affair. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a so far?" centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, chamber." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and for its centre. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but be sorry for having acted so harshly." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his brain must have something in it." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing vanished into the darkness. Clair, of Lee." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "On the contrary, this is the right side." collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "He said that you could solve anything." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "'What do you call purely nominal?' the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't distance from the station, and there we found the young lady copied or distributed: play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert closely." When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done matter over." do." coat-tails." in his power. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what obstinate." cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "No, but the enclosure is." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as presented which may be striking and bizarre without being gigantic client. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my that the gas is not laid on in his house?" both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "But he might be a bachelor." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of least a most suspicious remark." cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety if I call to-morrow?" Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his Stoke Moran." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow his cane at the bell-pull. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "And Miss Sutherland?" perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Oh, the cause is excellent!" followed. me have 200 pounds?' once more for Briony Lodge. hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "No?" "I assure you that I am in your hands." my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say McCarthy's innocence. "You are hungry," I remarked. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "That sounds a little paradoxical." was not a bird to be seen there. the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." kindly on the shoulder. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the helping a boy to put up the shutters. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "And I say east," said my patient. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," it." whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' lost his Christmas dinner." it right.' the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. fashion which was peculiar to him. This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and on in his house." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her his knees, staring into the fire. it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my http://gutenberg.net/license). that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, Henry Baker is a member." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "Eh? What was that?" "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable characteristics, but those are the more obvious." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You when your master had gone out." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat letters?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in questioning and rather startled gaze. face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible over with notes and figures. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know Holmes. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon said Mr. Holder. "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. dear old homesteads?" would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the "I was mad--insane." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Just look it up, then." to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the even of instruction." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and affection." "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I ashen face. "No legal papers or certificates?" cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the becomes even more simple." him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out the nursery. if only as a check to my own memory." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "Witness: I must still refuse. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "You have but to name it." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for carriage. It was a chestnut." from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with John Swain, of St. Augustine. or other trace. But how on earth--" he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, information in his hands the value of which he did not himself ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from the side-table." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "I have come for advice." window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the