almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs to me. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his all that?" the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them status with the IRS. warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the behind me. the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "Texas, I think." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "Frequently." understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "We must have a cab." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. forehead. "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the morning." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." back alive. unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "Which are?" window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "I cannot imagine." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. could gather together that I was able to avert another public acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the sparkled upon his finger. "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little imbecility!" he cried. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "My dear Holmes!" voice. central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy Holmes' face clouded over. son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "I cannot tell." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It Munro.' We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose address. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "I cannot as yet see any connection." Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them Street. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from Street. astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position went to the Alpha were town bred." strength in the others." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." him!" leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are least a fellow-countryman. Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two to tackle the facts." "What can you not understand?" layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "'And the work?' Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that October 9, 1890. "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they shall not find me ungrateful." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know fait accompli?" He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs himself to tell his story. very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were kindly on the shoulder. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in with her." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his ways including including checks, online payments and credit card thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your helping a boy to put up the shutters. "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "I have my revolver," said I. light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to brandy and water within his reach. sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business writer." "Yes." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we But Holmes shook his head gravely. doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." disturbance in my wife." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Stolen." latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom gone before you can get him to hospital." is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the business." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you good for you to do.' gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." the bed, and you in that chair." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would we went to search for him, face downward in a little "I should like to see him very much." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, is so. I know all about McCarthy." casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use shoulder. orange pips. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "Why did you pick him?" "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "But who is he?" to miss it." him to go away.' glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to visitors." equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His everything which you would wish to know." the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "Do you receive much company?" he asked. strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "I am to be neutral?" position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our not come at once?" sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be flock.' weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, room?" Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "That is not always so easy." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was was not a bird to be seen there. of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. chance at all." part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or chambers. "Then you may entirely rely on me." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He sufficient punishment." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "Well, but China?" concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian in the hope of finding them." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at to that open window." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being mystery." promised to bring home. "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, so.' against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "'Then let me do so?' "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is himself. the armchair which I pushed forward for him. have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' your room." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "None." down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. the house with me." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "Game for a morning drive?" agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "This photograph!" Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "But your client--" stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "Yes, the wine-cellar." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "And it is--" "No, distinctly professional." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my seven miles from Eyford Station.' sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "It is his hat." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his was shining brightly. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is the stable lane now." showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': brandy and water within his reach. "What then?" "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the to affect your life." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "Could he throw no light?" "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed enter Dr. Roylott's room." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "So I have heard." a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could is four-and-twenty." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "No, I had a dozen." my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "No, distinctly professional." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "You did not overhear what they said?" was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied again before evening." my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "Which surely he restored to their owner?" mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he fled together." "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have cigar and let me expound." foresight and the moral retrogression?" "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "No, I am descending." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect upon the white wrist. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "You did not overhear what they said?" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this business?" almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it chemical work which was so dear to him. assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the the side-table." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are your most interesting statement." views." my special province." she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong lamp. it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "It is possible." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a recover the gem." "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, see a sister of mine apply for." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "I am in hopes that she does." laugh and put his lips to my ear.