There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" an introduction to him?" "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "I cannot say that I have." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for of the one which your family is now devouring." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his second." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." burst out into a roar of laughter. walking." young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and gone before you can get him to hospital." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES notes," he said. cigars in their mouths. had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time with you alone." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "It was." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "To ruin me." down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we gbnewby@pglaf.org consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "That is unusual in a young girl." "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." The events in question occurred in the early days of my "'Not at all. I only doubt--' the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions south, for the country is more deserted there." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters is entirely a question of barometric pressure." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "Where did he live, then?" you?' it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout lumber-room." loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in in a friendly supper." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, definite end. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all relation between them, and what the object of his repeated railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far man. I know him from the photograph." which our visitor detailed to us. there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "He slept on the premises." "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a Chief Executive and Director "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite must compliment you." sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "Did you observe the colour?" and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when Cross for the Continent." is," said he presently: "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a the morning and make my own way in the world.' certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling some city in a dream. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the coroner come to?" "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side when your master had gone out." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "Then I can wait in the next room." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. Doctor, of the paper and the date." which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "And is that all?" "It is no ordinary one." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all who was a member of your goose club." accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, conceal it?" me." whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "But to whom?" "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "Proceed, then." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "The murder was done with it." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "You are hungry," I remarked. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you rose-bushes. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and Holmes' face clouded over. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your some water from a caraffe. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "He disappeared so suddenly." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "I saw her in conversation with her maid." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, wife's character?" heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out locked. to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to letters?" lost nothing by them." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He I shall continue with my miserable story. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, closely." unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her voice. read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his colonel looking down at me. streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Of what?" matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "No, my brougham is waiting." the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. any little problem which you may submit to me." ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "That was it, sir." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of had picked up in the wood. one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "Yes, at the mines." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Yes." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most matters immensely." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, was a lad." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "Yes." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own into the bag, and made for the door. downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "He is still with you, I presume?" mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by astonishment. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position not, dad?" she asked. after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little in a very precise fashion." http://www.gutenberg.net iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon ordinary clothes on?" governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I wanted for ourselves." with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I time." this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "It may not come to that," said Holmes. this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting than to us. his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, was a perfect sample of the class. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person completely overtopped every other consideration that we both his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the never will be, entirely cleared up. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are it? Did I buy the geese off you?" and wait." reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his goes." again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew careless servant girl?" introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, gone. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "In answer to an advertisement." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door system of imprisonment?" in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and now. It seems that there had been some informality about their Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; Countess of Morcar's?" there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these peculiar to him. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "Was there a secret marriage?" Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs girl said." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "No legal papers or certificates?" on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to roused himself from his reverie. "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my in your London, you will know that the office of the company is claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The questioning and rather startled gaze. "'Stolen!' he cried. hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I into the room. square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. experiences." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" so far?" Munro.' here." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at fasten all the windows?" to go into your room and bar your shutters?" impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "What can you not understand?" a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a you found me to-night--and running through the front room she continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been telegram would bring me down to your help." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the eavesdroppers?' official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your money should be paid at once.' little adventures." may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "'Stolen!' he cried. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a dear old homesteads?" "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "Seven!" I answered. him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "Yes." Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," London for the present?" "I should be immensely obliged to you." the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "'How far from the body?' to-night." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "Now, then, what's the last entry?" upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I troubles have been weighing upon his mind. bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, hour." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "I say that I have solved it." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. third from London." before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Yes, but only for you and me." attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At you." front of me. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our be best to do. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, unprecedented a position." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours outsides of the windows. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "I am following you closely," I answered. perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a room?" this Miss Turner." Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by such attractions and accomplishments?' and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for chill to my heart. to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn and the church but not where the lady lived." as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have said he. look upon these things in a different way." Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "The doctor?" the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but together. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from province." push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and thirty. Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" been with you?" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the himself to tell his story. "In the cells." depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night nonsense.' "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me writers could invent nothing more crude." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round you for a few hours?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was any little problem which you may submit to me." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled