- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "'What are you doing there?' he asked. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out charge against him will break down." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "It is solved." "Do you go out much in society?" For additional contact information: pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "Yes, sir." "'Why that?' I asks. the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with colour had been driven from his face. over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, down. back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into foot. "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the everything which you would wish to know." woman." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his prisoner's face. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in crackling voice. Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my presented more singular features than that which was associated followed. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "A thing like a cleaver," said he. see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his putting in the horse. the roots. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite question you as to those details which seem to me to be most the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming future lives." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek again before evening." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "No?" evidence," I remarked. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid Does that suggest anything?" see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough once more to my work. "Has he come with you to-night?" "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country brandy and water within his reach. past. must be when I saw the door open.' in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if correct than the official force." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about character. for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on his fortune, and I went back to pa. expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "I assure you that I am in your hands." contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are stood on the top of it. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "Was your sister dressed?" "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have bonnet, and went out." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings light and attacked it." "Your sister is dead, then?" "That is not always so easy." our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of salesman. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went as yours." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "What then?" arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I he. "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. the tragedy. you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked front of me. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "Where, then, is my wife?" while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my 11:15.' electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." I took the paper from him and read as follows: the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly whole matter to your consideration." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman once more on the important position which you have been fortunate all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place official police." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he photograph?" yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the any more." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the relief. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when Holmes. "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking the warnings." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "Why, what do you mean?" from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the own family. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the Arthur Conan Doyle got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been tell me that you intended to go into harness." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George because she had spent so short a time in this country that she gentleman's clothes. "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "My stepfather's business papers." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "Could he throw no light?" misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "Whose house is it?" there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation weigh very heavily upon my conscience." liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom hopeless attempt at recovering them." at home. could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence maiden herself was most instructive." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "Ah!" violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and call you and give you the chance." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "About a month then." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "By no means." my little problems." relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" this truth that in these little records of our cases which you his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "And for present expenses?" well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "You have a clue?" Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, asked. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country and the church but not where the lady lived." however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me pity, because in other respects you would really have done very which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "A client, then?" swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. papers on the sundial.'" How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated unkempt, staring out at me. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty stood on the top of it. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to as the one I chose?' "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." very morning of my second wedding." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the was a lad." that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made the morning and make my own way in the world.' at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your morning." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' again before evening." placed his cuttings. my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "I don't believe it." "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate them?" the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did what these perils are?" down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was Holmes rather sternly. DISSOLVED. with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that behind me. "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and You can understand that this register and diary may implicate of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the his eyes and forehead. that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster in the port of London." "I cannot as yet see any connection." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "I am about to be married." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the new duties?' other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "I was sure that I might rely on you." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring his fortune, and I went back to pa. neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with appeared upon the scene." Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," place of silver." "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "There is the writing." "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "ARAT," I read. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "And you can do nothing until then?" anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the the so-precious time, but come!' letters?" "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was swore that no one else had been in the front room during the enter Dr. Roylott's room." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "Stolen." "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird have got?" several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Imitated." views." over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "What, then, did Peterson do?" shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "Yes." "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" The King stared at him in amazement. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his conclusions. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "He said too much." but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his she used." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "Yes." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? she slowly sank and died without having recovered her bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "What do you make of that, Watson?" the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would Holmes rather sternly. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well information in his hands the value of which he did not himself ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine Arthur Conan Doyle stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "'What do you call purely nominal?' "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it you came in." "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "But not more so than I to find you." of a light. is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an Literary Archive Foundation of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "I don't say that. Perhaps." stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "What! a murderous attack?" constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, companion imperturbably.