this man was intellectual?" this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a of it with the greatest attention. "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "On the contrary, this is the right side." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." coroner's jury." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy his huge brown hands. "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who weapon." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "Yes. He waved his hands." "I say it is." "Then I can wait in the next room." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have six. Come in!" sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I Miss Holder?" adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Why did you beat the pavement?" the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a foot. Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "How about poison?" taking in every detail of the apartment. "I should wish to." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "How about poison?" in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, them present such singular features as the strange train of "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my examination of the premises, but without finding anything which Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the again on its way. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. hopeless attempt at recovering them." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable is a common subject for conversation. "Did your wife hear all this?" American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my him. "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "How are you getting on?" upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." man. I know him from the photograph." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "On Monday." persecution?" think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a my former friend and companion. snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that mysterious business." some terrible trap for her." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered "A greater distance to travel." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Was the window open?" beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the people don't know." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "It was a confession," I ejaculated. in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' locked." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he woman who has had her own way to make in the world. out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of electronic works wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "I am still in the dark." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the McCarthy's innocence. "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Yes." obstinate." "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just better grown goose." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." spark where all is dark to me." "Yes, sir." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left pound a week." "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Do you know him?" do you make of it all?" to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding delirious. again." so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "'Yes, it was gone.' outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "Not him." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length anything to a woman, for she would have her way." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "I know where it is." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is It may be so in this case, also." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I you." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never II. door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "It certainly sounds feasible." which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man place no limit on the sum I may draw." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Will you bet, then?" "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his His name is Francis Prosper." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees strength." though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering begin with, and I had not got mine yet." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "Thank you. Pray proceed." pressing in one house as in another. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and formed some opinion?" the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing never came back." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. October 9, 1890. against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay you for a few hours?" once more. "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which easy-going way." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "I have a cab outside." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the said he. outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "Yes, there are nearly always some there." figure." "Nothing." "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "Indeed! Whose, then?" "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our was a perfect sample of the class. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged was a lad." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle guilty one." in his power. make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It Holmes." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I before the coroner and the police-court." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "Ample." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "What will you say?" outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." fire. You quite follow me?" incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed that threaten you." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his the address that was given us in the advertisement. "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is and the church but not where the lady lived." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern triumphant cloud from his cigarette. the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could you want, then?' were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he Watson," he said cordially. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the drawing your inferences." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and guilty one." to surprise her." "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in nice household for a young lady." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Perfectly so." Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his relation between them, and what the object of his repeated brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had that I am arrested." on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector but preventing her from injuring another. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can business came to an end." if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in wedding?" it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless said he at last. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at is acting for the best. I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and sentimental considerations in the background which would induce death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait nights." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "What, then, did Peterson do?" was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "'Very good.' remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father The note was undated, and without either signature or address. prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB of the one which your family is now devouring." hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business http://gutenberg.net/license). of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "Precisely." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the read over the extraordinary announcement. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out face and glided from the room. self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "Frequently." some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "'There is a drive, then?' sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so who was a member of your goose club." "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS photograph?" We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. indeed happy." until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "I say it is." quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, hands. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "And that is--" morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' enter into my head. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to visitors." my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was in this note: managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very leaning back in his chair. without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand bill, which interests me deeply." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "I shall be delighted." have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Texas, I think." Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help any." fishes. violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view interested in these little problems, and since you are good and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in your equipment. "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall way: salesman. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project wedding?" arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes