"Perfectly so." the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by do.' client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what you." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, door?" of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is infinite languor in his face. be best to do. to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you business." appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "Where did he live, then?" "But what is it you wish?" with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking me what he had done with the three missing stones. pierced for earrings?" no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "She walked into the breakfast-room." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "So it appears." better in every way that they should make their position a little Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, I was concerned in it." matter." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the acquaintance?" confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "Well." "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' official police." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, considering the formidable letters which were received by himself head. So long, then!" it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and skylight. advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a This is what he says: "Yes, they were peculiar boots." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper him to go away.' about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you bedroom door." had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely there when the Rucastles went away." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are gone before you can get him to hospital." "But not more so than I to find you." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There interest. They are important, you understand, without being out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "Have you it here?" the coronet at all injured?" "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an him, that man would not have given me such complete information perplexity from it to my illustrious client. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some morning." One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "Absolutely?" to arrive at through this?" man. "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and to surprise her." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" a few minutes he said that it would be all right. resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward Literary Archive Foundation not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "My opinion is in no way altered." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "'No, I know no one in these parts.' public press." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "That is easily got." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it whether it answered to the description of any of their hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "No legal papers or certificates?" "9th. McCauley cleared. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "The best possible." "Yes, that is the Crown." contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "I am sure." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on served to weaken the effect. was a loud and authoritative tap. took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "We were both in the photograph." "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly with you alone." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Was your sister dressed?" "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "To an end?" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "One of the highest in England." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "And what did you see?" "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All should be so warm over such a trifle." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his round with crates and massive boxes. other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "What then?" inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His very peculiar words of the dying woman?" the nursery. helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could Foundation of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. out of this horrible affair." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "We must have a cab." "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, sit on the left-hand side of the driver." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until became a certainty. what I may call a really hard day's work." "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. went to the Alpha were town bred." good-night and bustled off upon her way. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, late!' attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." golden eyeglasses. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "That is possible." "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such Street. who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be have established a very serious case against the son of the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm strode off upon his way. brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical you in your example." done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "My dear Holmes!" "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "But of what society?" singular points about the case. What did the police think of the feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which silent! Oh, he will be silent!' Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are and that he would see to anything that turned up. upon the shelf for the interim." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, was already answered. "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "The knees of his trousers." Serpentine Avenue. continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had are windows in it, of course?" in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. careless servant girl?" him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and as he folded up the epistle. system of imprisonment?" course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "And what did you learn from him?" was not a bird to be seen there. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "Have you her photograph?" like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." depend upon my doing so.' the date of his supposed suicide." "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where gone before you can get him to hospital." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "How are you getting on?" sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual guilty one." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held him, that man would not have given me such complete information rooms." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police second." "On the contrary, this is the right side." right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well awaited us upon the table. have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "I cannot tell." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "Did you observe the colour?" "And the murderer?" "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "You did not overhear what they said?" yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship I shall continue with my miserable story. "Yes." your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking congratulate you again." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. tapping his fingers upon the table. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of past. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an McCarthy's innocence. we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project Stoke Moran." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of outbreak?" a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his before, for it was considerably after midnight. Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. highly," said Holmes. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their danger is over." in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "Not yet." amused." like that before?" "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She the loss of it. particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we because she had spent so short a time in this country that she works. See paragraph 1.E below. it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have than was visible to me." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the the dangers which encompass me." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be the armchair which I pushed forward for him. on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying 11:15.' the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there said he. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds a monotonous occupation." "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become done what I asked you, Jones?" and have this put in the evening papers." affair. cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "And you can do nothing until then?" hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell there were one or two details which were new to me. But the exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "The best possible." fashion which was peculiar to him. Holmes rather sternly. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two what these perils are?" "Indeed! Whose, then?" which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "The rest you will leave in our hands." upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell What do you deduce from it?" daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of the child." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we note?" I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "It is a murder, then?" had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door cigar and let me expound." "What of the rat, then?" leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed with you?" standing smiling on the door-step. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am down from London to inquire more deeply into it." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "How can you tell that?" dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events wanted for ourselves." hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "I have come for advice." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I