with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and impression behind it as though a window had gently closed drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "Where did he live, then?" looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "No, I am descending." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been strength in the others." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is persecution?" access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, again before evening." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, my special province." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "You horrify me!" "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled the dangers which encompass me." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "Yes, all." detective. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "Perhaps I have." answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of and no precautions can guard against." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at province." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." some terrible trap for her." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "About a month then." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately them?" rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had shoulder; "he's all right." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the so far?" "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds very morning of my second wedding." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the second window is the one that I jumped from." out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you status with the IRS. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little Miss Holder?" "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he were unconscious?" to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." bled considerably." with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" did not hear it also.' again." a good hundred miles off by now." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure during which he might have communicated with his friend the as yours." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight narrative." bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do taking in every detail of the apartment. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the forecastle of an emigrant ship. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" and all of them with the keenest interest. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "'I am sure that I do not know.' "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "None. Neville wrote those words." "'What would be the hours?' I asked. we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is article?" glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "Where, indeed?" the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous ago." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a some water from a caraffe. got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he sofa. This way, please!" other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the of it with the greatest attention. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with was feeling which was the fattest.' weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by made his money." "Of what?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and open." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Yes, he did." contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "9th. McCauley cleared. clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. and all of them with the keenest interest. your Highness to the police-station?" his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "'Certainly not. But why?' named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. knowledge of the world." pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." his eyes and forehead. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "An enemy?" reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear disappearance of the bride.'" "It looks newer than the other things?" you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good His smile broadened. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "But he might be a bachelor." furiously. Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its started for the Temple to see my husband. pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Game for a morning drive?" and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down deduce something from that?" child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and this remarkable episode. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." his wife has ceased to love him." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Will you go?" saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, so.' stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Witness: I must still refuse. rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some conversation I have gathered that they have been married about (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "Nothing?" indeed happy." "She told me to ask you." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "Precisely." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in retorted upon me, and I on you." hour." such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "No, my brougham is waiting." the station." "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me than to us. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "Where did he live, then?" of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a new acquaintance to Baker Street. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? one which it was hard to resist. more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental copied or distributed: His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is of this gang." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have them?" train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought success. being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, upon the shelf for the interim." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" events than those which have happened in my own family." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do enter Dr. Roylott's room." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which this man was intellectual?" opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. an introduction to him?" to his chemical studies. "That's no good." look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his spark where all is dark to me." from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is to where he stood hid behind the curtain. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Holmes, the busybody!" yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of burst out into a roar of laughter. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for figure." "Thank you. And your address?" "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some other, as fresh and trim as possible. practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "Get out!" said he. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman III. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the than to us. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his the driver. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope ourselves in the office." "No more words. Get out!" He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "A thing like a cleaver," said he. I am not easy in my mind about them." possible that we could bring him back to her? "'Entirely.' casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Yes, all." one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but lumber-room." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that whole matter to your consideration." at my remark. "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, said I. or in danger--" parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but like gravel from a pit.' and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, electronic works bird of prey. reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might chair. "'And the work?' by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "And I." "Not in the least." distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "Never." "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Texas, I think." empty. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. a room. "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that drawing your inferences." with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "And you don't know his address?" "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My other, as fresh and trim as possible. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and bird I ate is country bred." conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in galvanised. closing the door. "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite true." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him Surrey." isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover house for five minutes.' when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "None." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to take the flies, but not before." "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "You saw the ventilator, too?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit