"Could he throw no light?" "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever could not account in any way for the presence of the missing One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle been with you?" right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the not within a twentieth part of the market price." "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "Was your sister dressed?" excitement. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but Sutherland. that he will be back before evening." in the hope of finding them." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears always that they were such commands as a lady might with I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "Not yet." "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. to some other building. should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would annoyance, but no jest. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." eat it." question," said Holmes, smiling. Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are an introduction to him?" John Swain, of St. Augustine. fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached it." the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "What do you make of that, Watson?" the ceiling. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or were wasted." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. searched, without anything being found which could incriminate never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "Which surely he restored to their owner?" his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "A client, then?" is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was upon a handsome competence. of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable clanging. Serpentine Avenue. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson vault. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an go back?" "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of direction." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door door?" to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your opened the door, and slipped through. upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. some city in a dream. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with companion quietly. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body hands. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she legal crime." "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said papers diligently of late, have you not?" very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. not personally threatened." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "What then?" followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between empty. ashen face. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very astonishment. would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare chair. dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough crowd. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "Yesterday." hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of in his power. it were putty." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still unclasping of his long thin hands. Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I think that he is innocent?" There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Just look it up, then." villagers almost as much as their master. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was indeed happy." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not indeed which he could not unravel. in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." back alive. Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a must compliment you." the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front is four-and-twenty." man. round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Yes, that is the Crown." fait accompli?" breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "She showed me, as I told you she would." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes crime." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "May I see it?" "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. ceremony." "He said too much." "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a threw himself down with his face to the pillow. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow the stones. Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "Come in!" said Holmes. carriage. It was a chestnut." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left gbnewby@pglaf.org "'There is a drive, then?' It was close upon four before the door opened, and a years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice one or two very singular points about this room. For example, tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have public press." "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me highroad, where all traces were lost. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his fasten all the windows?" "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. floor. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with round with crates and massive boxes. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing way in." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "What, then, did Peterson do?" neither fascinating nor artistic." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have not as remarkable as your advertisement." put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." during which he might have communicated with his friend the "My photograph." "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & I think that I could be of assistance to you." "Did your wife hear all this?" "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "He disappeared so suddenly." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "'No, I know no one in these parts.' came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood said he. nonsense.' the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a washing it down with a long draught of water. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and easy-going way." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Tired-looking or fresh?" head. So long, then!" the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "How did he come?" better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to and effective." corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "Perfectly so." afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is thirty. assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which hour." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of the room while you explain this matter?" The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have the salesman. then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "I am following you closely," I answered. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my present." You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to that you can jump it.' business in the City. She little knew what. me." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. to surprise her." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes fishes. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Perhaps we may make them less so." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "'In my own bureau.' years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost of the way of danger. august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still hand, madam?" it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed she has been waylaid. There has been no result." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian floor. sneer upon his pale face. "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your investigation." retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, away into the river." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "Here?" a suggestive one." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "You horrify me!" perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not II. what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of Leadenhall Street--and--" two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in the Red-headed League." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his paper in the air. "Certainly." License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. not within a twentieth part of the market price." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a know what is wrong with it.' your own bird, so if you wish--" penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, future lives." "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. the coronet in his hand?" look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to digesting their breakfasts at home." absolutely follow my advice in every respect." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered "Then I can wait in the next room." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position Holmes. have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to particular state visit http://pglaf.org "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying this as likely?" his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the already been minutely examined." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "What! a murderous attack?" pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still