over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are to-night's adventure." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of and all of them with the keenest interest. journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to shall not find me ungrateful." been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "No, I think that I'll take it." hour?' breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my you." been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very would then never go into court at all." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the mysterious business." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "Yes." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your child?' felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his think you a quite exceptional woman." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' hereditary King of Bohemia." serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "Has he come with you to-night?" however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. DISSOLVED. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "'Oh, no.' therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and bed dies. Does not that strike you?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the society." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other along the entire front of the house, with three long windows the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my beyond words. "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but Holmes' thin, eager face. enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The furiously. obstinate." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," For additional contact information: "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "You saw the ventilator, too?" her also." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout you came in." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the out of this horrible affair." "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs drove away. had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house vague figure huddled up in the darkness. showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been the room while you explain this matter?" back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No man. thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California front of me. "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling colonel looking down at me. come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "'And the work?' "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "No, distinctly professional." "'Oh, no.' hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day friends, not even his own brother. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" unclasping of his long thin hands. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "What shall I do?" however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this laugh and put his lips to my ear. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "And you thought he was pulled back?" lost his Christmas dinner." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I even so self-evident a thing as that." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' hour." until night should bring an explanation. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past the inquest, and which are worth considering." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. completely overtopped every other consideration that we both James Windibank. Voilà tout!" shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "What office?" them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." their singular warning or token before them when starting upon formed some opinion?" "His face fell immediately. our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was fattened it expressly for you.' "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple row." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' detained." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite there were one or two details which were new to me. But the brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said fattened it expressly for you.' after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "A thing like a cleaver," said he. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke wall." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, father's young wife. salesman. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "Yes." and looked back. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "Was your sister dressed?" "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their fat-encircled eyes. "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at third from London." round with crates and massive boxes. to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "I think that I had better go, Holmes." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug these bleak autumnal evenings." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as one of them." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my companion imperturbably. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "You are certainly joking, Holmes." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no you give your casting vote to?" was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his pictures, libraries, or plate. "Then I shall certainly come." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some one which it was hard to resist. Pope's Court, Fleet Street." when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "What do you mean?" makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. certainly do as you advise." Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to is so. I know all about McCarthy." a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "And your father? Did you tell him?" "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted test if we have an answer to our advertisement." which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more new duties?' "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a what is your own theory as to what took place?" not, dad?" she asked. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what garden below. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds have been better. It is all right." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on legal crime." "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "You saw the ventilator, too?" metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so present." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the London for the present?" Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "From his hat?" down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a which it had come upon my father." pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to to me. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "And Irene Adler?" "You saw the ventilator, too?" clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "At the wedding breakfast." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "And how did you find out?" "And from a noble client?" McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not of Fenchurch Street." putting in the horse. jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an man. I know him from the photograph." "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "Precisely." who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at do." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which perplexity from it to my illustrious client. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for Lee, in the county of Kent." "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if whole matter to your consideration." up this clue while it is still hot." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "And the cigar-holder?" cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous as noiselessly as she had come. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day best detective that ever lived. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a o'clock is it?" as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my public press." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud memory. one else, I think." "But who is he?" Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there garden below. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I persecution?" near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I of a light. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "Certainly." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "I don't believe it." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "'In my own bureau.' deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to main points of my analysis." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." that there was nothing in it, after all." but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any hopeless attempt at recovering them." through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed strange features which were associated with the two crimes which more solid." "Yes, sir." "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "'And the work?' however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. and a shock of very red hair. "Proceed, then." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it to miss it." "'Ten to two.' what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and taking in every detail of the apartment. "Nothing?" single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "We have tried and failed." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was morning." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." pierced for earrings?" Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "Only as much as we can deduce." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "'Stolen!' he cried. I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself as yours." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at the station." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "In San Francisco, a year ago." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "What do you mean?" "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the call you and give you the chance." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Perhaps I have." said he at last. "And your father? Did you tell him?" could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round It may be so in this case, also." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought washing it down with a long draught of water. said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence Miss Holder?" we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your what you can do with this work. 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