feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this signal between you and your father? the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever asked. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall absorbing." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of six. Come in!" square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon London for the present?" London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "Yes, they were peculiar boots." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who as he remarks, very much against the son." His name is Francis Prosper." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. villagers almost as much as their master. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "Stoke Moran?" said he. "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do the date of his supposed suicide." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as over with notes and figures. young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "Breckinridge is his name." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and towards the blaze. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being you?" redistribution. fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in case-book, which he consulted. next day. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "'Not at all. I only doubt--' figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "And the cigar-holder?" time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "At half-wages, in fact." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up of this gang." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. strong and stiff." little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you said he. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a of receipt of the work. emerged. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. and it need not interfere very much with one's other wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "But you were on a friendly footing?" woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "I answered that I had not. quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland but preventing her from injuring another. coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your papers." stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole that you can jump it.' his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "What is it, then--a fire?" anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in begin with, and I had not got mine yet." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his lost his Christmas dinner." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and the stones. overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran pity, because in other respects you would really have done very then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be the south-west, I see." one else, I think." He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "I see no marks." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man not within a twentieth part of the market price." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the without success. At last the little money which I had saved began Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "But the mystery?" directors, with the result that you have seen." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Pray continue your narrative." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away could not have written that. It is the German who is so step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. allusion to a rat. we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "Certainly." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "No, I had a dozen." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "To an English lawyer named Norton." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "Oh, yes, easily." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of round and wave him away like that.' which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "By all means." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "He said that you could solve anything." part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black of receipt of the work. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not the roots. few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of situation." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "I have hopes." time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the best detective that ever lived. upon the white wrist. "'Never.' "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "Was your sister dressed?" Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "No. What a strange idea!" had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, depend upon my doing so.' cigars in the box." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "And you thought he was pulled back?" diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and you do it in twenty minutes!' minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." woven round him. to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not hands. than was visible to me." call it cruel." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "I never have." "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and back to my heart. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "Of Friday, June 19th." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." discontent upon his features. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this crime. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can tell them apart.' child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had His smile broadened. "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending in this note: Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get everything which you would wish to know." one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for call it cruel." at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy visitors." eavesdroppers?' had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might have an American origin." constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "No bad?" building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "'Very good.' it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us congratulate you again." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "Pray continue your narrative." rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who your own bird, so if you wish--" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the simple cases which are so extremely difficult." window when the police appeared." minor matters until to-morrow." corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see again, where I was soon asleep. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to conceal it?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a both be extremely obliged.' suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your will take you up to see the machine.' "He said too much." come either from the window or the door. My attention was In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "My photograph." round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." because she had spent so short a time in this country that she practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is head. So long, then!" minor matters until to-morrow." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the the coronet in his hands?" "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** point in the dark hollow of his hand. he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass rat could hardly pass through." THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police which are rolled in Rotterdam." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." here and I will read it to you: see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "'As governess?' his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "VIOLET HUNTER." whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look me have 200 pounds?' iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away take the flies, but not before." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would carried out of court." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "My dear Holmes!" "Your French gold?" "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She problems help me to do so." soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" heavy and sharp instrument." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of completely overtopped every other consideration that we both was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, jewels which you have stolen?' than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular it were putty." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some will he say when he returns?" Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on purpose equally well?" There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I is," said he presently: have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, orange pips. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned be there in time for your coming." "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "'I have heard so.' plantation.' jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I lost nothing by them." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel delighted to hear it," he said. least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her tail." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the are windows in it, of course?" grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the hand, madam?" or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend to a more successful conclusion." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist showing my impatience. Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our hurried by. stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, late!' to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this brought there to personate someone, and the real person is Young McCarthy must be got off, however." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "Was the window open?" he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "You will not go there first?" you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "No. His orders were to stay in the house." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to