McCarthy." was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as and put his glass in his pocket. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in things are very often connected not with the larger but with the gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." business." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be London for the present?" pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "'How far from the body?' fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "You forget that I know nothing about it." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of as this. Pray let me have the details." Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' the loss of it. disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very shall use the carriage to-night." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, will not take me long to tell. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of she might be summoned. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most the coronet in his hand?" "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, the ceiling. "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "'Never.' George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant License. You must require such a user to return or always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to showing my impatience. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. train.' and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be brain must have something in it." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it God! What an exposure! What can I do?" about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" the warnings." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he than was visible to me." be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously kind enough to tell me what I should do." teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great outside." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may father's young wife. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless hard-headed British jury." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, I shall communicate with you." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me results." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "That you are never beaten." instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has most interesting one." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "And how did he make his money?" morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you promised to bring home. see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "An accident, I presume?" the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "'Where to?' police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "I cannot tell." I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of furiously. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Was there a secret marriage?" office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "What I expected to see." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "You are hungry," I remarked. "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave him." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for not fit the lock." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and fat-encircled eyes. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the outside. confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "'Yes.' He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done Does that suggest anything?" "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's me." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right success. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed me." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small unclasping of his long thin hands. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "'What are you doing there?' he asked. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at not personally threatened." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make his wife has ceased to love him." "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" affection." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "Why, it's a dummy," said he. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it not interfere, come what may. You understand?" saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H once more to my work. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in approach us with offers to donate. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "You know me, then?" "Yes, sir." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled acted in my house last night?" you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "You were travelling in the States?" poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical go back?" had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "How did you deduce the select?" doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will few hundred pounds.' "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one morning." "It's nothing of the kind." the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong 1.E.9. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows and the colonel ushered me in. danger is over." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "One of his hands." will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the presented more singular features than that which was associated often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the Gutenberg-tm License. delirious. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very call it cruel." has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "No." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." congratulate you again." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." McCarthy." Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "Breckinridge is his name." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm awaited us upon the table. "Do you receive much company?" he asked. this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Where is it, then?" without a word or a look. A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own for the market.' feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing least a most suspicious remark." remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I footfalls from the street. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "Tired-looking or fresh?" one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "Where did you address your letters, then?" very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will impression behind it as though a window had gently closed and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "'You doubt its value?' he asked. door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such kindly on the shoulder. Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers subject to the trademark license, especially commercial the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." that he has suffered." pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." this as likely?" the devil!" then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "'Oh, no.' pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "Perhaps we may make them less so." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the himself to tell his story. wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others chamber." certainly do as you advise." correct than the official force." own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the would apply.' "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Yes." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Quite so." "You will not go there first?" child?' black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said tension within him. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "What have you to say now?" of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" kind enough to tell me what I should do." words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I some terrible trap for her." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a pierced for earrings?" without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which coroner's jury." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger only touch the interest." For additional contact information: "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine even of instruction." remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Thank you. Pray proceed." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. fled together." "No more words. Get out!" 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "What?" tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in politicians who had been sent down from the North. bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "I would give my fortune to have them back." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, and looked back. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was Project Gutenberg-tm works. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." a room. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "Yes." "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot The telegram which we eventually received came late one night would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My little trying to do so much typewriting?" photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." joking. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do he.