call it cruel." "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural any little problem which you may submit to me." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "Pray let us have it, for all that." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Then you may entirely rely on me." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us awaited us upon the table. "And leave your case unfinished?" the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry said he. "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is should be so warm over such a trifle." Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just not within a twentieth part of the market price." detective. his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "No." nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "And what then?" He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak the dangers which encompass me." and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to desk. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot had a long day." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "They are typewritten," I remarked. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "'How far from the body?' the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." had formerly been in part my own. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "Then I can wait in the next room." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "'How far from the body?' danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in of note-paper. It read in this fashion: which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then arrangements." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "Yes, he did." "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I and that he would see to anything that turned up. that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one shaken than I had ever seen him. "Yes, sir." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "It is possible." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge she slowly sank and died without having recovered her We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND felt the room to be a little close.' the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. that you can jump it.' "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes business came to an end." "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "Where is it, then?" following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial could gather together that I was able to avert another public a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "Did you become engaged then?" subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "The murder was done with it." brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "It was." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth kind enough to tell me what I should do." "I was afraid that you were engaged." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for power." state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to triumphant cloud from his cigarette. to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of threw himself down with his face to the pillow. and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a very peculiar words of the dying woman?" few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "You horrify me." figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he the address that was given us in the advertisement. moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the annoyance, but no jest. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "In San Francisco, a year ago." amused." "What steps will you take?" I asked. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been even so self-evident a thing as that." mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can in the port of London." residence of the great financier. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "By no means." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea from you?" "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the could go. the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the mysterious end." The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend more terrible than the truth. "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was tear off another piece?' cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "What is it, then--a fire?" "Is he quiet?" way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most should be so warm over such a trifle." she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and pictures, libraries, or plate. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Then, as to money?" clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and impression behind it as though a window had gently closed makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination I approached. "And you can do nothing until then?" then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your if I call to-morrow?" "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the hour." the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, disturbance in my wife." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, one of the states of the Union." reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner and the church but not where the lady lived." "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. again on its way. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "Very well, sir. And this stone?" her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was few hundred pounds.' window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and and effective." breakfast?" patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after case-book, which he consulted. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable one which it was hard to resist. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "His face fell immediately. hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and DISSOLVED. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a at a side door. Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it evidence," I remarked. should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a the King without delay." he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by bearing upon the case." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "Very well, sir. And this stone?" explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would taking in every detail of the apartment. "Nearly eleven." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Your French gold?" absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "You will not go there first?" having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." strode off upon his way. trying to your nerves." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was child?' cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "Well?" England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the with her." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "I am all attention, madam." no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." minor matters until to-morrow." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor reach." wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The shall use the carriage to-night." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "It surprised me." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, During two years I have had three consultations and one small "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' had picked up in the wood. "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "Which surely he restored to their owner?" parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual in a very precise fashion." and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "My Mary? Impossible!" matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, late." from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite assist you in forming an opinion." great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "That's no good." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend I nodded again. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and open." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute residence of the great financier. back to my heart. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, perplexity from it to my illustrious client. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A fait accompli?" reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do have one." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "I would give my fortune to have them back." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon with her." violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope crime. "Not him." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "I shall most certainly do so." believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain had formerly been in part my own. the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe meanly of me." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent upon the sideboard." husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in triumphant cloud from his cigarette. while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "I have come for advice." which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "Married! When?" the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "'Not at all. I only doubt--' reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of indeed happy." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "The King of Scandinavia." The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of and the colonel ushered me in. about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to main points of my analysis." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! outside." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect this unhappy family?" "Two days later this same performance was gone through under sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, in this way: natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly best detective that ever lived. yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "Oh, the cause is excellent!" insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just the little opening for the ventilator is." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "Nothing." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' back into the street. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "'How far from the body?' to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "Always." calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to case before our client came into the room." words came to my lips. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought."