in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the in him." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "Where, then?" had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and the matter?" "Precisely." voice, changing her seat as requested. works. "If so, much may have happened between." time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Nothing." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "What then?" "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "What have you to say now?" forehead. Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes IS bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing fasten all the windows?" particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Which are?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the second window is the one that I jumped from." upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address plantation.' "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be paper in the air. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a that I can to serve you." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally correct than the official force." by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the ill-usage at the hands of fortune. in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for other, as fresh and trim as possible. be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "One of the highest in England." taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on national property. I was determined that the law should have its to-morrow." Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she and it need not interfere very much with one's other "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "I do." situation." 1.F. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the had this final quarrel? reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could she slowly sank and died without having recovered her have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, or other trace. But how on earth--" "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and the running down." redistribution. the station." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our is a common subject for conversation. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on trifles." indeed which he could not unravel. "It is very clear." know all about it," he snarled. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. in this way: "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug burst into a hearty fit of laughter. stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "It goes to the housekeeper's room." America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is hopeless attempt at recovering them." seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white some city in a dream. She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an that you wished to speak to me?' "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "But the mystery?" helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days go back?" "My photograph." strong reason behind." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the place of silver." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she away into the river." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "Precisely." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Of what day?" upon the sideboard." bachelor.' walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "Yes." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "But what harm can there be in that?" "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have upon the shelf for the interim." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." to surprise her." away to you." from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction once more to my work. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of gone before you can get him to hospital." used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must have one." bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "I was afraid that you were engaged." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Why serious?" "I shall most certainly do so." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' placed his cuttings. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was within hail.' reach." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his ashen face. is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number is worth.' loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "I cannot say that I have." you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "I was afraid that you were engaged." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon things are very often connected not with the larger but with the general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, door?" fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in what these perils are?" "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the carpenter." "What steps will you take?" I asked. constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "'What are you doing there?' he asked. and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. young Openshaw's." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "You have compromised yourself seriously." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Lestrade of Scotland Yard." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "'You cannot say what it was?' facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior in. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. stalked out of the room. passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "My opinion is in no way altered." the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "On the contrary, this is the right side." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of lost his Christmas dinner." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "And what did you see?" indiscretion." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "It is to him that this trophy belongs." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that to-night?' "It is true that I have been generally successful." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her mysterious end." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have dramatic, in fact." our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang *** START: FULL LICENSE *** I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began goes." "I don't believe it." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must question. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as strength in the others." great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull compunction about shooting them down." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the Sutherland. "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "It goes to the housekeeper's room." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in have had none more fantastic than this." fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling and your relations to her." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two persecution?" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove joking. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for woven round him. hard-headed British jury." went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" a monotonous occupation." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently DISSOLVED. your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" this as likely?" morning." unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the husband's writing, madam." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, there were so many in the whole country as were brought together smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by Street. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, troubles have been weighing upon his mind. listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "The Coroner: What do you mean? A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, thin, with a long, sharp nose?" by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old notes," he said. standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "I am in hopes that she does." everything which you would wish to know." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, that I can to serve you." stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And his cane at the bell-pull. you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked was not a bird to be seen there. great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him tail." "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman very peculiar words of the dying woman?" all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very morning." there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT the tragedy. Heh?' which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, better in every way that they should make their position a little inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has as he remarks, very much against the son." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water memory. strength of mind to control. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." papers diligently of late, have you not?" "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were have not had my rubber." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me coroner's jury." as noiselessly as she had come. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** to-morrow." little adventures." "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "Imitated." know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "He is dead," cried several voices. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock his eyes and forehead. "Her father is very rich?" they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of manager. agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should true." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of to go into your room and bar your shutters?" people in all walks of life. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "Certainly." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "Where to?" "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "And you don't know his address?" a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I in darkness. "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, dramatic, in fact." Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That here and I will read it to you: