of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "I answered that I had not. "A call for help, you thought?" "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious your co-operation." come either from the window or the door. My attention was I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into lectures into a series of tales." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw several quiet little villages up there." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush footfalls from the street. for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce fashion which was peculiar to him. "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate sparkled upon his finger. "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the chance." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or gbnewby@pglaf.org Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as Pool. Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "In the cells." grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "'Very good.' better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you and that he would see to anything that turned up. "I am about to be married." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing Leadenhall Street--and--" ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been present." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined your most interesting statement." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It brought there to personate someone, and the real person is It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every up this clue while it is still hot." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he soul! here is her carriage at the door." McCarthy." these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "The doctor?" Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either Munro.' "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a so.' "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing read it out to me." Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner washing it down with a long draught of water. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of that threaten you." believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "Awake, Watson?" he asked. practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his from you?" dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "No, but the enclosure is." happened." we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a affection." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was future lives." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer the nursery. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he awaited us upon the table. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. For additional contact information: He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." examine." of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the indeed which he could not unravel. the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "What do you mean?" probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "He is dead," cried several voices. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it were new raised from a basin. away to you." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "You did not overhear what they said?" recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that not within a twentieth part of the market price." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' hard-headed British jury." the devil!" always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little past. "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I very morning of my second wedding." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came name is different." that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me Leadenhall Street--and--" 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "You know me, then?" "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had you." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At a good hundred miles off by now." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few said he. unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." into the room. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "And Irene Adler?" when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "And I to find an enemy." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his bill, which interests me deeply." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "It came here." "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb indeed happy." me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "What I expected to see." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so Farm upon the left." "I don't say that. Perhaps." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the morning and make my own way in the world.' weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is most important business. It is probable that he will be away all terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the do." attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a it." swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, on re-entering her father's house?" overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a Have you good authority for what you say?" walking." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a the dangers which encompass me." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. bearing upon the case." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I not fit the lock." For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a with the outside air!" my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "It surprised me." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers said he. "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, vanished into the darkness. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "And why in hopes?" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "'And the work?' "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a three of the beryls in it, was missing. "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "Pray do so." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where woman." floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive colour had been driven from his face. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that married her." conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" "'Not at all. I only doubt--' imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" recover the gem." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no Chief Executive and Director was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "It was an hour's good drive." squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "And did you observe any change in her then?" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." this man was intellectual?" inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is in the hope of finding them." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "Yes." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit handed it to him. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, Sutherland. was used.' this man was intellectual?" three fields round his house, and there he would take his "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "Ha! you find it so?" "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost a few minutes he said that it would be all right. it right.' "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and You want to know what became of those geese?" branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, started for the Temple to see my husband. was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your breakfast and whispered something to her husband. there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us 1.E.9. abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years conceal it?" tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "Yes, sir." "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which nonsense.' "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "No. What a strange idea!" I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered I. unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the are, I think, all that we need." "One?" and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love Project Gutenberg-tm works. papers." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such to a light-house. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing my special province." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "What is it, then--a fire?" the dangers which encompass me." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Dark enough and sinister enough." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in your bag." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having which are rolled in Rotterdam." the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I gone before you can get him to hospital." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My writer." anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and guilty one." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare where we are going." logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "None." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear fatally injured? dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the remarked. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I behind me. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed strode off upon his way. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence furiously. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, him and tried to hold him back. ourselves in the office." Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were