empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two lamp in his hand. at my own good fortune. "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is some terrible trap for her." of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before late!' 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of beyond words. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped figure." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's I shall continue with my miserable story. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long politicians who had been sent down from the North. long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his http://www.gutenberg.net We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps place of silver." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely been." vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "'I have heard so.' than to us. "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out the one as in the other." have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, and that he would see to anything that turned up. have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached vanished into the darkness. used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "Yes, the wine-cellar." of the efforts of the United States government and of the better and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "Nothing?" Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "Well?" Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "It is solved." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? society." branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "You will not go there first?" 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" I was concerned in it." what is your own theory as to what took place?" As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "What, then, did Peterson do?" but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "And why?" "What have you done?" asked Holmes. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "No." I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, think, you have already met." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, formed some opinion?" "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "And I to find an enemy." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's I shall continue with my miserable story. "Eh? What was that?" paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may when you have done it." very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after arms and began to sob in a high treble key. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as guilty one." of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "'It is locked up,' I answered. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, ways of our fellow-men." "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when used to be." "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "'Tell me all about it,' said I. quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year really the only notable feature about the thing." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. his cane at the bell-pull. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I how narrow had been my escape. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Were they all fastened this morning?" methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "Absolutely?" any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" key turn in the lock." in a very precise fashion." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's or other trace. But how on earth--" into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window which I could not give. He asked for Alice. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my results." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom province." but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I recall any case within my experience which looked at the first danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in outbreak?" blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. green of the new foliage. and have this put in the evening papers." tell him that I know him to be innocent." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is locked." red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the American. Then who could this American be, and why should he drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the appeared upon the scene." "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or murdered man." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step his forehead." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "Here?" back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "I am armed." the best of training." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how few hundred pounds.' should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you as he folded up the epistle. bled considerably." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is note?" wedding?" "No." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every straightened it out again. silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid "But I have heard all that you have heard." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, guilty one." "You have the photograph?" companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As that the gas is not laid on in his house?" foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, politicians who had been sent down from the North. "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed the coronet at all injured?" "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still within hail.' "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "'And the work?' Holmes. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a The events in question occurred in the early days of my aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have upon the shelf for the interim." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "What!" he roared. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger look dissatisfied." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "'Ten to two.' to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "Tired-looking or fresh?" too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." the coronet in his hand?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "Nothing." I shall communicate with you." facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "But she could not love him." south, for the country is more deserted there." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "But it has twice been burgled." to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours you want, then?' air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country to you." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, crime. circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "'There is a drive, then?' desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my keep the flames under. Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened bled considerably." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set together. silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where so.' didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we October 9, 1890. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case nonsense.' "You are hungry," I remarked. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "In San Francisco, a year ago." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "'Yes, I promise.' "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' wanted for ourselves." Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "'What then?' I asked. Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your woven round him. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up the King without delay." you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing right! Sit down and let us talk it over." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "Ha! you find it so?" "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached friends, not even his own brother. everything which you would wish to know." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by hand, madam?" grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a dear old homesteads?" of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able you?' the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either him and tried to hold him back. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend man. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof dates and names. Watson," he said cordially. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "Of what day?" my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his families. Now for the facts. "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his peculiar to him. "'Never,' said I. "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." his fortune, and I went back to pa. "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty photograph a cabinet?" "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very crowd. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE hour." must be when I saw the door open.' we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "How often?" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "Very much so." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "Not social, then?" cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "Quite so." glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "She told me to ask you." the warnings." "What! You do not mean bodies?" round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "In heaven's name, what for?" Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are Doctor, of the paper and the date." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "But it has twice been burgled." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the strength." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will in your London, you will know that the office of the company is breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it know all about it," he snarled. which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE voice. matters immensely." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, at a side door. cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From his huge brown hands. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are