Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "But how did you gain them?" tell them apart.' "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "Then he might have called to you?" ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may John Swain, of St. Augustine. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer unkempt, staring out at me. are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this writing, and yet I know it well." too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "And that is--" Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next experiences." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and criminal. We have already had experience of such." "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "But you would not advise me to refuse?" chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in writer." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the it? Did I buy the geese off you?" should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must From what you have told me I think that it is possible that Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows investigation." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," Foundation "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if upon an income of about 60 pounds." clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. closely." admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, both be extremely obliged.' secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "Then what has happened to him?" Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss digesting their breakfasts at home." may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of the bed, and you in that chair." examine." notes," he said. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She occupations.' new acquaintance to Baker Street. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "How did you trace it, then?" your equipment. that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are his eyes and forehead. "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" points to suicide?" beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Will you go?" breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "No bad?" "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "'You cannot say what it was?' came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across of it with the greatest attention. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on Serpentine Avenue. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "It looks newer than the other things?" stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "What, then?" know that the truth is known." "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no you." "Yes." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. friend's singular character. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "But his left-handedness." and all of them with the keenest interest. considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and new duties?' I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "To the police?" was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "That is also quite modern," said the lady. thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have room?" "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "But you were on a friendly footing?" upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "Perfectly so." unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "Dr. Becher's." your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that cup of tea. approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "And why in hopes?" "Was your sister dressed?" purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the call the police, let the police find what they can.' admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect get her out of the way." gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." photograph?" The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. over his head with a sweet womanly caress. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in the one as in the other." nothing with him." through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from his fortune, and I went back to pa. "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "And why?" fasten all the windows?" think you a quite exceptional woman." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Yes, all." estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "I am all attention, madam." threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal it were putty." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, there is a decided draught." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally have one." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery showing my impatience. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was been with you?" you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned hour?' broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and brain must have something in it." for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "It is to him that this trophy belongs." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment been shamefully used." ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "I cannot tell." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was in this way: until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to You can understand that this register and diary may implicate death." without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so his face which made him a very different person to the round, "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for cigar and let me expound." Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my she might be summoned. Sutherland?" "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it over his head with a sweet womanly caress. the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go infinite languor in his face. some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "'Never.' "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which again on its way. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "I shall most certainly do so." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "Bought." engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, the ceiling. "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love locked." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "You have but to name it." instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt you found me to-night--and running through the front room she simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and public press." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Eyford at 11:15.' square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in McCarthy." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "In which, sir?" room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it with some details as to your case." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat heavily into it. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "'About the same.' before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "He is still with you, I presume?" "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a started for the Temple to see my husband. "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not closely." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "Thank you. Pray proceed." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. it." dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the shoulder. when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Heh?' "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "Ten will be early enough." like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" should be so warm over such a trifle." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the not personally threatened." "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "I was afraid that you were engaged." would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the once more. railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "What, then, did Peterson do?" hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "In which, sir?" down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these words came to my lips. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "The gentleman I describe." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I DISSOLVED. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "What have you to say now?" these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." his cane at the bell-pull. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This made his money." grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "To the police?" opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my have an American origin." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon his fortune, and I went back to pa. shadow pass over his face as I spoke. guilty parties." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was other means.' hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." girl said." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst.,