"Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a indeed which he could not unravel. one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "A greater distance to travel." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. likely to be some crony of the landlady's." however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. problems help me to do so." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "I was sure that I might rely on you." evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Not in the least." to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, of the efforts of the United States government and of the better the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her there when the Rucastles went away." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last absorbing." of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "You were travelling in the States?" would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "This concluded the examination of the witness." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but would apply.' shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past spark where all is dark to me." the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his cigars in the box." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was was used.' Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "Well, some hundreds of times." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. might help us?" Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" my former friend and companion. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his Does that suggest anything?" could gather together that I was able to avert another public long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the better in every way that they should make their position a little Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when have I gained?" case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. entirely lost his self-respect." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." father's young wife. my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "And who is her maid?" superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "Then, as to money?" age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the point our research must commence, and we will begin it by knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern she slowly sank and died without having recovered her to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "Yes, it was twisted." heavily into it. puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else morning." Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." cigars in their mouths. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." country, and eventually married, without anyone having a which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for spare." for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "No more words. Get out!" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of have accepted such a situation. true." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through been deceived." and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "But to whom?" conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had down. have one." many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining I took the paper from him and read as follows: however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "'And what salary do you ask?' breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion bare slabs of marble. "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "In answer to an advertisement." threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and approach us with offers to donate. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "'Never,' said I. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation the coronet at all injured?" premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" do.' of." His name is Francis Prosper." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three so far?" resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern laugh and put his lips to my ear. "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "Certainly." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the followed. through." reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for it. see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "But you would not advise me to refuse?" the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "Holmes, the busybody!" Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had frequently gained my first real insight into the character of terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, introspective fashion. of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly round with crates and massive boxes. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double later, upon the night of May 2nd." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, you." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "Pray be precise as to details," said he. kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "From his hat?" in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "Precisely." a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the morning." there has been an enclosure here!" are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was "Pray do so." view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the him. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "A thing like a cleaver," said he. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, the matter." work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "Come in!" said Holmes. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "It is half-past ten now." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither test if we have an answer to our advertisement." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a forbidden door. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and one of them." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "Yes, the wine-cellar." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you enter into my head. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his train from Paddington which would bring you there at about had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, perplexity from it to my illustrious client. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for flock.' of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking cause to be." not as remarkable as your advertisement." into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "I came to find a friend." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. client, rising. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "So it appears." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through voice. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my companion. invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler matters immensely." once more. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." just called myself is not exactly my own." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "Your sister is dead, then?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "Yes." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," down from London to inquire more deeply into it." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found interest. They are important, you understand, without being full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of him and tried to hold him back. his knees, staring into the fire. as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was my former friend and companion. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the gigantic client. some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not kindly on the shoulder. just ask you whether you had heard it.' broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been said he. "'Then let me do so?' decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "It certainly sounds feasible." I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your voice, changing her seat as requested. vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. later, upon the night of May 2nd." "Yes?" his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of long narrative. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential handed it to him. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that delirious. send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. tell them apart.' rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Her father is very rich?" It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." strength in the others." happened." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "Then, how do you know?" knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise bears upon the case?" he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than now. I fear that you have felt the draught.'