"The gentleman I describe." "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if shall use the carriage to-night." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "You forget that I know nothing about it." prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here chance." course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "'Ten to two.' With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he invisible to me," I remarked. held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have one of the states of the Union." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I kindly on the shoulder. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "But you have hopes?" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "My dear Holmes!" at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the how narrow had been my escape. Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying you found me to-night--and running through the front room she of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to such person." fat-encircled eyes. will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were this poor creature." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned have been better. It is all right." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission writer." Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "And Irene Adler?" window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "No more words. Get out!" doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a such person." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "I cannot imagine." his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her lost his Christmas dinner." matters immensely." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "And I." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we conversation I have gathered that they have been married about black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest directors, with the result that you have seen." the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "And Miss Sutherland?" their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first stepfather?" subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in appeal." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any whole matter to your consideration." them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to points to suicide?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Why serious?" knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian introspective fashion. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "'And the work?' went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should depend upon my doing so.' chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "In answer to an advertisement." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should relief. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose you in your example." explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." 'I should be able to look after that for you.' assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and have I gained?" Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, photograph a cabinet?" puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down province." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Yes, sir." "I shall most certainly do so." "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method wall." air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "If I can be of use." and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "In what way?" asked Holmes. October 9, 1890. reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg brandy and water within his reach. thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it dear old homesteads?" "What will you say?" the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my Serpentine Avenue. back alive. "Was your sister dressed?" thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "And why?" Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project brain must have something in it." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "I think that I had better go, Holmes." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which had this final quarrel? "Yes." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Who by?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow business matters.' gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I answered with a sidelong glance. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and where she found matters as described by the last witness. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "Which surely he restored to their owner?" being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly you want, then?' buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "About a month then." glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are made him keep the appointment." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle one of them." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic chamber." chance." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your fire. You quite follow me?" noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular delighted to hear it," he said. the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of silent! Oh, he will be silent!' her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "You forget that I know nothing about it." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a security.' derbies." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into Pool. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a writing, and yet I know it well." "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of could not account in any way for the presence of the missing closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few to change my dress. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He towards the blaze. very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, to where he stood hid behind the curtain. so.' shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "Deserted you?" his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier question. the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather later, upon the night of May 2nd." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "Where, then, is my wife?" that, and I came down." Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. chance." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "About a month then." not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "Thank you. Pray proceed." safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "That is not always so easy." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Yes." and that he would see to anything that turned up. the driver. go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very did not hear it also.' following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a *** START: FULL LICENSE *** him to be an active member of the medical profession." them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "Texas, I think." "Of Friday, June 19th." outside." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed your troubles." inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my there has been an enclosure here!" felt?" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in maiden herself was most instructive." "Never to return." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy when you have done it." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "The Coroner: What do you mean? "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most chance at all." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a must be when I saw the door open.' were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "She walked into the breakfast-room." copied or distributed: and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "She told me to ask you." fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight Holmes rather sternly. "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in front of the hall door has given its name to the place. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the it? Did I buy the geese off you?" and looked back. Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. galvanised. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "'Oh, no.' often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Then I do not see the point." hurried away. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be present." my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of leaning back in his chair. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram foresight and the moral retrogression?" machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he impression behind it as though a window had gently closed feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "But how will you look?" be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from I took the paper from him and read as follows: idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "How are you getting on?" "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step Holmes' thin, eager face. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "'About the same.' winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be carriage. It was a chestnut." gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I keep the flames under. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my away into the river." aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all away into the river." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "Always." The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this business came to an end." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her key of the affair now." chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "Pray do so." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "To ruin me." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "'Where to?' in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I the roots. approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid Watson," he said cordially. think that any burglar could have done. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who drove away. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a ordinary clothes on?" does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls my little problems."