was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the pound a week." Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "'Yes, sir.' his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of introspective fashion. away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had the night.' manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "What, then, did Peterson do?" fear." knowledge of the world." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "I don't say that. Perhaps." "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." Eyford at 11:15.' Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of weighed down with some great anxiety. "But the mystery?" had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "Very much so." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "My photograph." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "And the murderer?" of receipt of the work. a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned meant it for the best. town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of sufficient punishment." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we bearing upon the case." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. him. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of John Swain, of St. Augustine. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This where Mr. Fordham shows you.' works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg pity, because in other respects you would really have done very DISSOLVED. maid will bring up your coffee." "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which begun to whiten, even as mine has." "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself the bottom.' confronted him. some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "Well, it is a possible supposition." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face existence." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "A client, then?" Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable and prosperity to your house. Good-night." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "You have a clue?" It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. foot. tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own something of him before." "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Where, then, is my wife?" met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." standing smiling on the door-step. away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a brandy and water within his reach. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "One of his hands." to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "I would pay ten." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "And from a noble client?" against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us to that open window." right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "What can it mean?" I gasped. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it Gutenberg-tm License. fat-encircled eyes. "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up public press." "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and sparkled upon his finger. You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in nothing with him." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of think you a quite exceptional woman." as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "And I say east," said my patient. therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "Ah!" "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt and all of them with the keenest interest. cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a one's self under obligations.' week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "And when will you call?" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "And the cigar-holder?" sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a gigantic client. time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making power." might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock the Friday. Was it to be in church?" brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more pound a week." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I thirty. table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then I took the paper from him and read as follows: Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to go--none." I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I written. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "But you have hopes?" whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the already referred to. "BALLARAT." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and not interfere, come what may. You understand?" to-morrow." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings the date of his supposed suicide." "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, rooms." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Sutherland?" trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was go back?" "Dark enough and sinister enough." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "He said too much." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Yes, from Horsham." if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. papers on the sundial.'" well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and ordinary clothes on?" contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated crackling voice. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little very morning of my second wedding." condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "At what time?" the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Then, how do you know?" hands. the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had started for the Temple to see my husband. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself man. round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things hardly wander." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "There is the writing." deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, tension within him. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do people in all walks of life. name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were chamber." as he remarks, very much against the son." the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "You horrify me." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, purpose equally well?" The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and Mary, has deserted me." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up voice, changing her seat as requested. shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I who was a member of your goose club." "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him as noiselessly as she had come. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. opened a pocket-book and took out a note. cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "What will you do, then?" what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in such person." were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "In answer to an advertisement." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "Nearly eleven." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. might help us?" A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which to arrive at through this?" and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "When did it break out?" follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a conduct the inquiry." "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it and looked back. cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four What do you deduce from it?" computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of sake, don't!" villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. public press." strength." then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at chair. "Certainly." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. morning." bird I ate is country bred." he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about fatally injured? the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a such attractions and accomplishments?' and shall probably return to London by the evening train." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he him and tried to hold him back. and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, sentimental considerations in the background which would induce Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my upon the shelf for the interim." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were frequently gained my first real insight into the character of once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. him to be an active member of the medical profession." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "And sit in the dark?" "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search not interfere, come what may. You understand?" dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' any little problem which you may submit to me." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "What steps will you take?" I asked. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of strong reason behind." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "Yes." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so not use it unless it is absolutely needed." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "None. Neville wrote those words." http://gutenberg.net/license). wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa quick march!" company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left Project Gutenberg-tm works. once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if hair?' 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a British peeress.'" "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not way in." purpose of examination. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is http://www.gutenberg.net insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." his face which made him a very different person to the round, broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly to-night's adventure." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the evidence," I remarked. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "'I have already given you my word.' classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "That also I could fathom." the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," What do you deduce from it?" that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed very old mansion. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if so.' answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Your sister is dead, then?" It may be so in this case, also." on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. signal between you and your father?