During two years I have had three consultations and one small again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." a room. "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating points in connection with it which never have been, and probably sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it strength." more solid." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, grasp, he hurried from the room. right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is key turn in the lock." which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I the best of training." gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "BALLARAT." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "What! Had he lost his wife?" office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently call you and give you the chance." and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, electronic works business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "Can I be of assistance?" flock.' "Well." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. everything which you would wish to know." One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "I would pay ten." When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "Who was the criminal, then?" "Then I shall certainly come." before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "No, but the enclosure is." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you dear old homesteads?" the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a go--none." be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Yes, he did." room?" not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than you for a few hours?" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Have you her photograph?" him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "Yesterday." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, companion imperturbably. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. During two years I have had three consultations and one small and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now you do it in twenty minutes!' called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "The gentleman I describe." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of here and I will read it to you: "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "It surprised me." "In answer to an advertisement." smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "I never have." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining straightened it out again. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only your only hope of safety." the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, green of the new foliage. that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence point in the dark hollow of his hand. through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "ARAT," I read. back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "What is it?" The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, the tragedy. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found to have been novel and of interest." green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "How about poison?" returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my written, and locked the door of the office after me. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a "And I say east," said my patient. "Yes, he did." from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a Pope's Court, Fleet Street." your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." giving me time to thank him. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that enter Dr. Roylott's room." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both over here." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "You will not go there first?" "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "What is it, then--a fire?" whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but this remarkable episode. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "Why did you beat the pavement?" the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of there." as he folded up the epistle. "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "Well." what is your own theory as to what took place?" their singular warning or token before them when starting upon to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest all-comprehensive glances. I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "By no means." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much do.' "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" place no limit on the sum I may draw." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future heavy and sharp instrument." unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, some city in a dream. "No." were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "'Then let me do so?' "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "What will you do, then?" teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "And when will you call?" the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "Was there a secret marriage?" life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue of his shoulders. "I am armed." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes lumber-room." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "That's no good." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that the date of his supposed suicide." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "What do you make of that, Watson?" she used." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "Do you receive much company?" he asked. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "What is it?" expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It despair." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other carriage. It was a chestnut." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." said I. avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons just called myself is not exactly my own." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "Did he not advertise?" woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "'Ten to two.' stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Not him." "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent careless servant girl?" "I do." "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: kind enough to tell me what I should do." said he, "my real name is James Ryder." and wait." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it you understand?" been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was coroner's jury." "On the contrary, this is the right side." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not you." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "One of his hands." "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that front of the hall door has given its name to the place. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part them, and came down just as you departed. shoulder; "he's all right." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," But Holmes shook his head gravely. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the is now desirous of getting those letters back." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of have accepted such a situation. a little more before I quite committed myself. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all disturbance in my wife." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "And from a noble client?" whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' humiliation." http://gutenberg.net/license). "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public press." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "'Quite sure, dad.' corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "I never have." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a conceal it?" pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when any more." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "Then I do not see the point." which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "Ah!" from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. locked. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case to have been novel and of interest." and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and I have it here in my museum." thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "And did you observe any change in her then?" obstinate." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "'I have heard so.' which should have the effect of calling the attention of the point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the and it need not interfere very much with one's other lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." voice, changing her seat as requested. creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting 'please.'" the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry people in all walks of life. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Precisely." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "That is not always so easy." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let to change my dress. might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both gone. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Yes, sir." Young McCarthy must be got off, however." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out