John Swain, of St. Augustine. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, this man was intellectual?" wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "No, but the enclosure is." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "Nothing." he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid very morning of my second wedding." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Yes, I have one waiting." your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and meanly of me." The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry London for the present?" instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." on in his house." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his fasten all the windows?" product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a children over to America with him, so that I found myself without at once, for I have only half an hour." came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he fat-encircled eyes. important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The the coroner come to?" laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "'Quite sure, dad.' to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "Yes, at the mines." chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put lamp. to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open his face which made him a very different person to the round, "Yes. He waved his hands." you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "An enemy?" nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you point our research must commence, and we will begin it by Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived for its centre. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand throat." "Absolutely?" "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from rooms." "He is dead," cried several voices. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you might have a private word with us. disappearance of these gems?" simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is to me. 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and letters?" Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. Pool. unprofitable." looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to envelope. against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and what I may call a really hard day's work." "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing Miss Holder?" such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and were unconscious?" than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. mystery may be cleared along those lines." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may the Assizes." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "But I am all in the dark." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first allusion to a rat. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a quick march!" the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich shaken than I had ever seen him. "How can you tell that?" VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE II. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." conclusions. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my guilty one." result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." shall use the carriage to-night." "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken which should have the effect of calling the attention of the good-night and bustled off upon her way. Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my morning." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. which I could not give. He asked for Alice. I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." of receipt of the work. present." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "You think so, too?" "You will not go there first?" meanly of me." "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "The best possible." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "My dear Holmes!" said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a do.' and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "What I expected to see." into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would strode off upon his way. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set and no precautions can guard against." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, to-morrow." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced business matters.' the stones. is now desirous of getting those letters back." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "You were travelling in the States?" of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the politicians who had been sent down from the North. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Witness: Nothing definite. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "Game for a morning drive?" "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about The telegram which we eventually received came late one night the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." him to go away.' and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "Certainly." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of Holmes' face clouded over. "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "My private note-paper." which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old to talk it over. a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All would then never go into court at all." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. foresight and the moral retrogression?" of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you could gather together that I was able to avert another public "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "I was sure that I might rely on you." official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "'I have heard so.' springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "One of the highest in England." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, held up the lantern and gazed about him. Doctor, of the paper and the date." "You horrify me." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Yes, it would be as well." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for affection." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "It is his hat." photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you them present such singular features as the strange train of action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "I should be immensely obliged to you." present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house the house with me." "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "The doctor?" the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the think that any burglar could have done. a room. brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with infinite languor in his face. three of the beryls in it, was missing. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely young Openshaw's." "Then I can wait in the next room." "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "And what then?" ways including including checks, online payments and credit card window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "No, distinctly professional." was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A the one as in the other." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very 'I should be able to look after that for you.' drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "He is still with you, I presume?" error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "What! You do not mean bodies?" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you made him keep the appointment." were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I never came back." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed carpenter." a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not your own bird, so if you wish--" upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a Holmes' room. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. me." "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me me where it went to?" "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might suggested at once that there must be a communication between the impression behind it as though a window had gently closed was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, chambers. upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. Sholtos." hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow not as remarkable as your advertisement." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly were new raised from a basin. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been excitement. "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "Yes, sir." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just have an American origin." heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe thought that she would have been so carried away." impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She room. they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is on in his house." towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would of this gang." "To the police?" convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. fish-monger and a tide-waiter." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "It came here." "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has to take care of herself." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we affection." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the