"Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked me where it went to?" They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary felt?" the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "I see no marks." success. screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, McCarthy." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were not interfere, come what may. You understand?" determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his suspect him." against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a purpose of examination. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I Sholtos." coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and his face. plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer money should be paid at once.' soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at really the only notable feature about the thing." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, British peeress.'" "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to the nursery. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an God! What an exposure! What can I do?" beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both the inner apartment." heavy and sharp instrument." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "My last client of the sort was a king." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "I was sure that I might rely on you." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A will he say when he returns?" something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant rooms." "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the that he has suffered." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The this Miss Turner." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his the general public were present, then?" "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and child?' down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the went to the Alpha were town bred." again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who drawing your inferences." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a of it with the greatest attention. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured strode off upon his way. believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad guilty parties." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are and wait." questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I in my life." running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my Sutherland?" him and tried to hold him back. strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "Not in a good cause." Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "Is he quiet?" Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger Watson," he said cordially. "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "How did you deduce the select?" all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." whether it answered to the description of any of their drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "How did you trace it, then?" more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble absorbing." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of held up the lantern and gazed about him. was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "Where, then?" "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. this man was intellectual?" "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. information in his hands the value of which he did not himself collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. particular state visit http://pglaf.org as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do and files of the old papers, following the future career of every slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "Yes, I have one waiting." "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. joking. be best to do. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "And what then?" likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that always that they were such commands as a lady might with and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of British peeress.'" been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "BALLARAT." This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Certainly." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "No, I am descending." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to as he remarks, very much against the son." "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "I say that I have solved it." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped you." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': that I may have something better before very many minutes are and the whole place is in a blaze." into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "What!" he roared. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the through." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon cup of tea. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "And now?" He raised his hand. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this Miss Holder?" 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "And is that all?" 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' John Swain, of St. Augustine. if I call to-morrow?" "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The that, and I came down." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will the driver. dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "'Certainly,' I answered. went to the Alpha were town bred." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, woman." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "I have seen the police." "What!" he roared. pressing in one house as in another. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he spark where all is dark to me." watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "Only as much as we can deduce." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the swore that no one else had been in the front room during the round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are instituted." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to some place of shelter and let the county police know what has there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "I never have." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of to go into your room and bar your shutters?" and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry words came to my lips. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "But what is it you wish?" cigars in the box." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked goes." to change my dress. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were note?" Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we considering the formidable letters which were received by himself why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my room had already been engaged for us. the bed, and you in that chair." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter test if we have an answer to our advertisement." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door investigation." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such the station." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the the dangers which encompass me." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "'I am sure that I do not know.' in the port of London." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending individual and becomes the badge of a society." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all case before our client came into the room." the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "Bought." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her to affect your life." License. You must require such a user to return or she might be summoned. "Nothing?" course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' papers must be those that are destroyed.' "When did she vanish, then?" Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "He might." "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." to talk it over. http://gutenberg.net/license). then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness gone. eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a appointment with me for six o'clock?" and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "And what did you learn from him?" "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "9th. McCauley cleared. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." joking. the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "Witness: I must still refuse. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "That's no good." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "'You cannot say what it was?' third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "We must have a cab." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if the inquest, and which are worth considering." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "Yes, there are nearly always some there." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated call for it in person on Monday morning.' cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you them?" smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "But how did you gain them?" are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg This is what he says: One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Have you her photograph?" "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must conceal it?" edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door.