"'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster stalked out of the room. meanly of me." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "How long did she speak to this Alice?" utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far success. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm absorbing." more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the ashen face. "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare of." question," said Holmes, smiling. "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "Yesterday." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between conceal it?" "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden there has been an enclosure here!" felt the room to be a little close.' leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side better in every way that they should make their position a little away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the it." him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that been shamefully used." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "What of the rat, then?" might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "And it is--" and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "A greater distance to travel." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, the Assizes." my special province." frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project seen the man in the road." of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "And I to find an enemy." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "But I am all in the dark." the date of his supposed suicide." cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the evidence," I remarked. central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." was already answered. presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "I think it very unlikely." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear your co-operation." mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he question," said Holmes, smiling. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more hair?' "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "'Ample.' than was visible to me." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign place no limit on the sum I may draw." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had reach." I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which new acquaintance to Baker Street. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, round with crates and massive boxes. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "But your client--" feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "Quite so." "VIOLET HUNTER." "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "I have my revolver," said I. could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, fat-encircled eyes. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "Was your sister dressed?" relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've stood on the top of it. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the get the tickets." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose orange pips. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the fishes. "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop whatever might befall. "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the prepare for the new role I have to play." from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow train.' "I think it very unlikely." while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "I warn you that they are very incomplete." no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "Very truly yours, chemical work which was so dear to him. carpenter." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I Arthur Conan Doyle pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "Yes, at the mines." "You don't mind breaking the law?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "Breckinridge is his name." "Then I am your man." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "Ah, but I was recommended to you." heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "No sign of it?" strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "And sit in the dark?" "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "Proceed, then." noise which awoke you from your sleep?" impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "Yes." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and how narrow had been my escape. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "Yes." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see ordinary clothes on?" think, you have already met." "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, It was close upon four before the door opened, and a affair. lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his had formerly been in part my own. the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen over here." pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "But I have heard all that you have heard." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the better grown goose." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything to-morrow." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then head. So long, then!" with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "Why, it's a dummy," said he. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and name is different." "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward enough to aid us in our search." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could cause to be." mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "In heaven's name, what for?" people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his cigars in the box." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a his wife has ceased to love him." held up the lantern and gazed about him. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past sufficient punishment." It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have with some details as to your case." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "Frequently." trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both may never be exposed to such a temptation." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "You don't mind breaking the law?" Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "It certainly sounds feasible." "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was lost his Christmas dinner." "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "He said that you could solve anything." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them the coronet in his hand?" much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not know all about it," he snarled. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "'And what salary do you ask?' with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the appeared upon the scene." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "Yes, but only for you and me." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "Why did you pick him?" "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who problems help me to do so." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just Foundation "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. knowledge of the world." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the prison!" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, for the market.' ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a was already answered. into the bag, and made for the door. arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face letters?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full to-night." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon Farm upon the left." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to bled considerably." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. tell me that you intended to go into harness." "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you works. See paragraph 1.E below. entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary appointment with me for six o'clock?" "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "The best possible." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "'There is a drive, then?' the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend man. I know him from the photograph." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "How can you tell that?" to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical good-night and bustled off upon her way. cost them two and thirty pounds." some water from a caraffe. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' back into the street. were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "And leave your case unfinished?" "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." strong and stiff." Farm upon the left." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." tail." and your relations to her." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did http://gutenberg.net/license). He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was redistribution. "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "Where, then?" penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "It was a confession," I ejaculated. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, business came to an end." or in danger--" really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of are windows in it, of course?" to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "Certainly." spark where all is dark to me." endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, think, you have already met." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "'Yes, sir.' sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the voice, changing her seat as requested. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What his eyes and forehead. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "Why? What do you mean?" opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, Holmes' thin, eager face. "I shall most certainly do so." results." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our cause to be." black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' mysterious business." both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. might have a private word with us. loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "I will get her to show me." and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my have got?" would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. were wasted." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to shag which I had seen upon the previous night. to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "I am armed." that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "No." Does that suggest anything?" in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, promised to bring home. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "Married! When?" 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "I would give my fortune to have them back." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Could he throw no light?" didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with you, my dear young lady?' four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that fees. 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