woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to any more." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "9th. McCauley cleared. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "Well, but China?" him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which I approached. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if once more on the important position which you have been fortunate the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached possible that we could bring him back to her? leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "And the murderer?" Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "You think so, too?" unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found do.' "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "And now?" I asked. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place married her." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He case before our client came into the room." in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance bill, which interests me deeply." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in that I can to serve you." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in 'please.'" For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his been anything against him. He had for years been known as a permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "Then I can wait in the next room." "What can you not understand?" our word." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "She walked into the breakfast-room." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I vanished into the darkness. outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must joking. side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the searched, without anything being found which could incriminate smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of done what I asked you, Jones?" with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid legal crime." Dr. Gregory B. Newby figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so tell them apart.' maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Indeed! Whose, then?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "One horse?" interjected Holmes. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their secret." "In answer to an advertisement." and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a bore every mark of being an average commonplace British planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a entirely lost his self-respect." "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "'And what salary do you ask?' look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length I nodded again. "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "I will, Miss Turner." case before our client came into the room." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. charged with?" nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." I nodded again. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than served to weaken the effect. a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "What do you mean?" "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales of Fenchurch Street." "In San Francisco, a year ago." a very grave face. tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the tell me that you intended to go into harness." The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This http://www.gutenberg.net streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the the best of training." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no became a certainty. stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide strong and stiff." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every place of silver." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "So I heard. You have him here?" "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "But how?" hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. to where he stood hid behind the curtain. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "Yes, only one." the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." here." one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than people in all walks of life. These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography could not have written that. It is the German who is so "Pray be precise as to details," said he. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and him, that man would not have given me such complete information has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again But Holmes shook his head gravely. never came back." Eyford." and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up right! Sit down and let us talk it over." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "What, then?" that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get companion quietly. only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, hour." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can more terrible than the truth. certainly not very gracious." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "That is easily got." about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door call for it in person on Monday morning.' purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack were unconscious?" chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight second window is the one that I jumped from." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. in one or two places in England?' As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "Yes, it was twisted." when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been any more." equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming think that he is innocent?" Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting astonishment. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no me. You must get home instantly and act." "Absolutely?" evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you compunction about shooting them down." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then to-night?' "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of Edgeware Road. station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "I don't believe it." "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of make me his representative both with the servants and with the be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's License. You must require such a user to return or do you make of it all?" "But to whom?" "Stolen." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Pray let us have it, for all that." Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are could not have written that. It is the German who is so Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "Then the page we have seen--" feature." particular state visit http://pglaf.org occurred." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant read it out to me." "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "If so, much may have happened between." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society mysterious end." "You'll never persuade me to believe that." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "When did it break out?" "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "Yes." "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had call for protection in the marriage market, for the present evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your Clair, of Lee." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then fashion which was peculiar to him. thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were her also." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall said he. was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "And how did he make his money?" think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no all?" would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was that?' or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the putting in the horse. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "A thing like a cleaver," said he. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so there when the Rucastles went away." prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy roused himself from his reverie. I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "She will not sell." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "No legal papers or certificates?" must compliment you." child?' self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." my special province." second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. lips." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "It looks newer than the other things?" have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "Did you observe the colour?" them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully know all about it," he snarled. the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "Perhaps we may make them less so." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic