Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. questionable one." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "Yes, sir." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on keep the flames under. national property. I was determined that the law should have its was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "Holmes, the busybody!" case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord unclasping of his long thin hands. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "It is possible." believe that I should never have any practice at all. and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he have accepted such a situation. the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. forbidden door. business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Then, how do you know?" fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, important." Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to events, Mr. Windibank!" exactly what you advise." "We have tried and failed." has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the fat-encircled eyes. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "By all means." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I is," said he presently: someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his Literary Archive Foundation walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police redistribution. that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had giving me time to thank him. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine not as remarkable as your advertisement." think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." morning." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "Why, it's a dummy," said he. sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "I warn you that they are very incomplete." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the them, and came down just as you departed. until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you of this gang." journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." down. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. of." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be the coroner come to?" and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "An accident, I presume?" lost nothing by them." "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "Can I be of assistance?" "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his http://gutenberg.net/license). He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a these bleak autumnal evenings." wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their them present such singular features as the strange train of not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. bedroom door." populous neighbourhood." be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, said he at last. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just peculiar to him. open." pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the down in his armchair and closing his eyes. the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "None." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself thirty. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me very old mansion. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the hand, madam?" "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little of." "'Stolen!' he cried. the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he stood on the top of it. "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss if I call to-morrow?" "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and the general public were present, then?" heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate happened." suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "Pray tell us what has happened to you." insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is was feeling which was the fattest.' assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "Did your wife hear all this?" any more." central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the then?" wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian papers must be those that are destroyed.' "No?" "What can it mean?" I gasped. the King without delay." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to beg that you will break it off." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and was feeling which was the fattest.' wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. Edgeware Road. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "But you were on a friendly footing?" once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband the night.' "None. Neville wrote those words." after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a foot. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by things are very often connected not with the larger but with the what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully lumber-room." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "By all means." "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission our word." run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "Your French gold?" of campaign. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for were unconscious?" "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature once more. our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "And what did you learn from him?" "Where did he live, then?" And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened papers on the sundial.'" We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "Then what has happened to him?" words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" Heh?' He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been note?" belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my existence." direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said seen the man in the road." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "It is a murder, then?" "Then, how do you know?" address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while breakfast?" "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage the King without delay." younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "No, finished." world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do fat-encircled eyes. official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family American. Then who could this American be, and why should he for its centre. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the this Miss Turner." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he I am not easy in my mind about them." we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "'Which dealer's?' But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "It is very clear." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I of the efforts of the United States government and of the better that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And ordinary clothes on?" PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE fled together." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up hurried away. sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "No, thank goodness, she did not." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I said he, "my real name is James Ryder." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "You don't mind breaking the law?" butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." taking in every detail of the apartment. many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and locked. unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, friends, not even his own brother. weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "'You cannot say what it was?' I nodded to show that I had heard. said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "By all means." morning." The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying bird I ate is country bred." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now McCarthy's innocence. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "And help." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "Here?" "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. learned something! Where are the gems?" Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "There are none." will not take me long to tell. say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "I cannot think." glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the opened the door, and slipped through. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such him. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." chance." home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint vault. hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and trying to your nerves." "And how have you succeeded?" full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant thin, with a long, sharp nose?" a room. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little "When did she vanish, then?" should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "What, then?" matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in grasp, he hurried from the room. "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter.