"'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "How can you tell that?" which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he experiences." done what I asked you, Jones?" "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "Absolutely none." importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I dates and names. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" the Assizes." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I notes," he said. Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you of fine shops and stately business premises that they really with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "The best possible." test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless late." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "He said too much." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic least a most suspicious remark." brain must have something in it." observed. A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way of a light. business." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through past. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "Why serious?" will find little credit to be gained out of this case." outside. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the breakfast and whispered something to her husband. the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade province." "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "But how did you gain them?" you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of examination of the premises, but without finding anything which enough to aid us in our search." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." papers." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or pierced for earrings?" from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, in the hope of finding them." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. lamp in his hand. is worth.' cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "My private note-paper." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "'Where to?' Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. with you?" B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you to a more successful conclusion." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able to tell." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate where she found matters as described by the last witness. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "Absolutely none." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which Chief Executive and Director difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, investigation." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid golden eyeglasses. undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the hour." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." What do you deduce from it?" but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "It is solved." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open a monotonous occupation." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." is worth.' may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress strength." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her point in the dark hollow of his hand. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the the roots. give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm be best to do. to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The tension within him. pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered him and tried to hold him back. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the presented which may be striking and bizarre without being where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you tassel actually lying upon the pillow. is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of your troubles." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "Certainly." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then there has been an enclosure here!" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" shoulder; "he's all right." dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to You want to know what became of those geese?" trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "'Ample.' me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which better grown goose." incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "'About the same.' advice." of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can the inner apartment." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "No, thank goodness, she did not." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in giving me time to thank him. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "It must be recovered." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' more solid." "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now man. "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" that you saw all that I did." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, it." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds written. "How can you tell that?" the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this away to you." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which the morning and make my own way in the world.' whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "Yes." "Was your sister dressed?" Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "Seven!" I answered. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had here." "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds happened." disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "The Cedars?" tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the possible that we could bring him back to her? "No good news?" heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are swore that no one else had been in the front room during the invisible to me," I remarked. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the man. as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face It may be so in this case, also." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower anything to do with the matter?" jewels which you have stolen?' often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "What do you make of that, Watson?" determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "Perfectly so." "Eh? What was that?" solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of Chief Executive and Director the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, highroad, where all traces were lost. "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the have established a very serious case against the son of the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face minor matters until to-morrow." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he vanished into the darkness. the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy you." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as have accepted such a situation. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the mystery!" when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth remarked. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me mysterious end." "You did not overhear what they said?" the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, "Oh, fresh and glossy." evidence," I remarked. "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two entirely devoid of interest." him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it question," said Holmes, smiling. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss man. "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Have you good authority for what you say?" "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my The summons was a brief and urgent one. key of the affair now." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out DAMAGE. hopeless attempt at recovering them." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "It was an hour's good drive." broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "So I heard. You have him here?" address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Here?" "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "But how?" when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but http://gutenberg.net/license). distinguish the words: I nodded to show that I had heard. but preventing her from injuring another. "You were travelling in the States?" "Certainly, madam." other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "At what time?" pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "It is very clear." The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that not use it unless it is absolutely needed." interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "How did you trace it, then?" passage and a tap at the door. the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "My Mary? Impossible!" seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "Ten will be early enough." there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I his cane at the bell-pull. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his or in danger--" both be extremely obliged.' and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up neither fascinating nor artistic." which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for