"Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such to-night's adventure." flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the and a shock of very red hair. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a relation between them, and what the object of his repeated to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "What, then, did Peterson do?" entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon meanly of me." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is companion imperturbably. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a forbidden door. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing desk. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote said he. "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation drove away. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." again on its way. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "What, then?" ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send interests were the same as his." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "That is it on the dressing-table." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and investigation." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "And now?" I asked. door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "You have carte blanche." "And who is her maid?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "Certainly." explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came to talk it over. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must bed dies. Does not that strike you?" pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying Serpentine Avenue. "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat the general public were present, then?" on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "How did you deduce the select?" - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "If I can be of use." instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were individual and becomes the badge of a society." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me and shall probably return to London by the evening train." '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment furiously. gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might place no limit on the sum I may draw." Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he sufficient punishment." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "And why?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and the roots. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "What then?" "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his locked." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Yes, sir." my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the the Red-headed League." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. is so. I know all about McCarthy." ways of our fellow-men." its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of to have been novel and of interest." You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "'Yes, it was gone.' he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached off." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his papers." fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. foresight and the moral retrogression?" your bag." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from joking. "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Not particularly." along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is said he. "Have you her photograph?" other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety License. You must require such a user to return or insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a that he will be back before evening." now. It seems that there had been some informality about their pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "Quite so." Holmes." "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the meant it for the best. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Certainly." his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the Street. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "One of the highest in England." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most envelope. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the was the fact that his father should, according to his account, more terrible than the truth. "Get out!" said he. given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp where we are going." night.' said he. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused works. See paragraph 1.E below. some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of chair. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted ways of our fellow-men." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much 1.E.9. "And Miss Sutherland?" lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a habit of advancing money.' "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through nonsense.' bell. Holmes whistled. "No." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just upon an income of about 60 pounds." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain I took the paper from him and read as follows: while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "Yes. He waved his hands." unkempt, staring out at me. say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "I guessed as much." "Where, then?" charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "No, I am descending." stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in recall any case within my experience which looked at the first thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two himself to hunt down. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "I say that I have solved it." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear matters immensely." brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to carpenter." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's redistribution. "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. stepfather?" papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. to tackle the facts." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered weary and pale-looking. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. was already answered. little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every paper in the air. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "What do you mean?" means taking possession of that which another person has a prior slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and she slowly sank and died without having recovered her through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, newspaper selections." "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Does that suggest anything?" that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not closely." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call memory. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a went to the Alpha were town bred." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "I saw her in conversation with her maid." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "Very. But will he see it?" flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his Holmes rather sternly. family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Yes, but only for you and me." of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the The police have openly confessed that they can at present make considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his entirely lost his self-respect." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between handed it to him. "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "About a month then." outsides of the windows. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. taking in every detail of the apartment. dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "I think that it is very probable." "Was the window open?" my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not against a man in the prime of life?" headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him clanging. go--none." two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, outside." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "'And what salary do you ask?' examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." corner of the building. master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "'Not at all. I only doubt--' her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" notes," he said. "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the goes." whereabouts. astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now learned something! Where are the gems?" I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, one of them." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. photograph?" "But how could you guess what the motive was?" us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a certainly not very gracious." would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a the child." stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. electronic works metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" money should be paid at once.' "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Pray do so." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "But you can know nothing of this?" claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had not come at once?" can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of as the one I chose?' "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "What!" he roared. a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "I will, Miss Turner." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments never will be, entirely cleared up. emerged. recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "Where, then?" description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" chamber." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as there were one or two details which were new to me. But the Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "What!" he roared. "Witness: Nothing definite.