"Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." the dangers which encompass me." Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm relation between them, and what the object of his repeated joking. trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and there were one or two details which were new to me. But the frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent hurried by. adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, present." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a four million human beings all jostling each other within the "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "I shall be delighted." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "Yes." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "None. Neville wrote those words." "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the events, Mr. Windibank!" stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "Tired-looking or fresh?" do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, public press." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each meant." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "'Oh, no.' never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "Then he might have called to you?" course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I case before our client came into the room." gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than October 9, 1890. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the question. We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "When did it break out?" the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope friend's singular character. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ you?' "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that affair. horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch following enigmatical notices: This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "But his left-handedness." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's hair?' child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." companion imperturbably. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should to that open window." article?" Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "And I say east," said my patient. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' there were so many in the whole country as were brought together simple cases which are so extremely difficult." interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a speckled band?" which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." be.' prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a I was concerned in it." certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "That also I could fathom." down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand not use it unless it is absolutely needed." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. yourselves in at night?" that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew heavily into it. "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of fat-encircled eyes. analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we you." criminal. We have already had experience of such." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is behind me. quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "Witness: I must still refuse. lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight matter." future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote have established a very serious case against the son of the seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Pope's Court, Fleet Street." aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "I think it very unlikely." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together evidence," I remarked. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the was not a bird to be seen there. of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "What shall I do?" "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "Seven!" I answered. son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "Was she in good spirits?" said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House lamp. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he constraint." indeed happy." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking main points of my analysis." "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she that he has suffered." convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Stoke Moran?" said he. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative fact, we may call it conclusive." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Can I be of assistance?" upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to walking." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "Then I am your man." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "You think that he is dead?" LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "At the wedding breakfast." "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Well, but China?" the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, investigation." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I troubles have been weighing upon his mind. goes." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question arms and began to sob in a high treble key. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "'Ten to two.' "And I to find an enemy." the best of training." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I things are very often connected not with the larger but with the sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked voice, changing her seat as requested. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Thank you. Pray proceed." "I have come for advice." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "You have a clue?" multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do suspect him." "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "Yes." tear off another piece?' "No legal papers or certificates?" himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "Really! You surprise me." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "And from a noble client?" vanished into the darkness. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "'Ample.' "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "No?" returned to France?" Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" might have a private word with us. of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "In what way?" asked Holmes. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off the coronet at all injured?" doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "Yes, the wine-cellar." occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very congenial hunt. case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be to some other building. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how *** START: FULL LICENSE *** works. you in your example." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "It came here." "Oh, fresh and glossy." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband memory. here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There upon an income of about 60 pounds." all that?" "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "It came here." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "I warn you that they are very incomplete." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough front of me. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the indeed which he could not unravel. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think man. I know him from the photograph." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the knowledge of the world." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, go--none." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a problems help me to do so." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." wedding?" heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "Did you observe the colour?" and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we man. I know him from the photograph." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a the coronet at all injured?" Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, believe that I should never have any practice at all. "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had colonel looking down at me. and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg observed. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" chambers. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "What?" refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "To an English lawyer named Norton." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the respectable self." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," it with his own hands." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with "Nothing?" "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. present." McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not gives a meaning to it." meanly of me." When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "And sit in the dark?" five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the gives a meaning to it."