into the room. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court yards of it?' "Yes." you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a lumber-room." his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I not within a twentieth part of the market price." of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "We were both in the photograph." amused." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek suspect him." Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the 'please.'" road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' writing, and yet I know it well." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "But how?" have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "'Which dealer's?' me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "I cannot tell." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were gone. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is companion imperturbably. is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a been." fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "One horse?" interjected Holmes. vanished into the darkness. lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I of receipt of the work. half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "'And the work?' Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "It is possible." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "I have come for advice." not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would indeed which he could not unravel. "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes records." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "I fear not." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "The Cedars?" "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said interested in these little problems, and since you are good pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. which should have the effect of calling the attention of the will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Not yet." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "'No, I know no one in these parts.' have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, union?" secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive must be when I saw the door open.' girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and bill, which interests me deeply." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house lips." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" 1.F. no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive with frightened eyes at his accuser. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "But of what society?" "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "And how did he make his money?" outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled words came to my lips. The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would there was no need for father to know." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's him nearly every evening." his knees, staring into the fire. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with depend upon my doing so.' bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." before, for it was considerably after midnight. a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Deserted you?" the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I him, that man would not have given me such complete information Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker prisoner's face. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to that I am arrested." right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "That you are never beaten." "'What do you call purely nominal?' considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "10th. John Swain cleared. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "And your mother is alive?" is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less of fine shops and stately business premises that they really lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my whether it answered to the description of any of their "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; bled considerably." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we floor. rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "9th. McCauley cleared. "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. here and I will read it to you: listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "I am sure." people in all walks of life. "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." undoubtedly my uncle's." quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly there." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at this poor creature." "Why serious?" shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "'Never,' said I. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "I promise," said Holmes. "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "I am about to be married." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or Sholtos." think that he is innocent?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "You have the photograph?" "No legal papers or certificates?" beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at about. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you Pool. "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when to some other building. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "By all means." before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your For additional contact information: ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his really the only notable feature about the thing." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "No." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. voice. human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Here?" and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated beg that you will break it off." throat." other means.' terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." said I. Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. point in the dark hollow of his hand. this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "Witness: Nothing definite. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. believe that I should never have any practice at all. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "What then?" habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "I cannot imagine." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "Precisely so. But how--" he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for posted to-day." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as see me here to avoid scandal." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw three of the beryls in it, was missing. the morning and make my own way in the world.' are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to was a lad." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "If so, much may have happened between." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew occurred." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" thin legs towards the fire. About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "'I have already given you my word.' would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "'Certainly not.' you." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, envelope. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "What is it, then--a fire?" in. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes drawing your inferences." I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of answered with a sidelong glance. the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in had this final quarrel? will he say when he returns?" kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I means taking possession of that which another person has a prior The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the you understand?" with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my my friend's incisive reasoning. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "We must sit without light. He would see it through the I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I to have that photograph." the side-table." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could opportunities to fix the problem. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of Clair, of Lee." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that it? Did I buy the geese off you?" unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" them present such singular features as the strange train of to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of tightly behind him. glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the photograph a cabinet?" "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks once more for Briony Lodge. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth coat-tails." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when envelope. come either from the window or the door. My attention was said he at last. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that there." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "What I expected to see." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "What do you mean?" may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was more terrible than the truth. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon answer." Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my carriage. It was a chestnut." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "What office?" written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "And your father? Did you tell him?" have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I your most interesting statement." the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of