"The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same him, that man would not have given me such complete information Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and colour had been driven from his face. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police chance at all." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure with some details as to your case." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which imbecility!" he cried. round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "I would give my fortune to have them back." "No." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "'It is locked up,' I answered. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "'Not at all. I only doubt--' waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who our word." the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as you give your casting vote to?" his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity humiliation." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' perplexity from it to my illustrious client. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to Lee, in the county of Kent." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "We were both in the photograph." I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." outside." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Seven!" I answered. is worth.' effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She could go. when your master had gone out." enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and constraint." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to carried out of court." brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new national property. I was determined that the law should have its specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a present strange and interesting features that it is no easy and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt plantation.' "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by shall use the carriage to-night." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the burst out into a roar of laughter. "'Yes, sir.' along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought impression behind it as though a window had gently closed THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "From his hat?" "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Was she in good spirits?" "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for new duties?' as he folded up the epistle. "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door entirely devoid of interest." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to this truth that in these little records of our cases which you companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. them?" way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "By no means." "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, experiences." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had American. Then who could this American be, and why should he in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "I have hopes." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "I should wish to." "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely ourselves in the office." "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "I will do it." but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I Does that suggest anything?" "Yes, all." man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and from you?" "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "I should like to see him very much." depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the your only hope of safety." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every deduce something from that?" "But I am all in the dark." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand What do you deduce from it?" of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little I nodded to show that I had heard. "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a question. country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" strength of mind to control. to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "Only as much as we can deduce." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a cost them two and thirty pounds." afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "What will you say?" protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the call for it in person on Monday morning.' appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as tell them apart.' with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the sufficient punishment." that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which breakfast and whispered something to her husband. collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "Nothing." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a It was close upon four before the door opened, and a Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "Nearly eleven." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have Edgeware Road. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch purpose equally well?" breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two conceal it?" my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. straighten it?" Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely hands. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place Young McCarthy must be got off, however." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "To the police?" "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can fact, we may call it conclusive." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "We have tried and failed." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less place of silver." "BALLARAT." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came had this final quarrel? "This concluded the examination of the witness." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "Nearly eleven." is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and in the dead of the night?' father's place of business?" been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been certainly do as you advise." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of the morning and make my own way in the world.' my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your again on its way. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "I have hopes." "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. case-book, which he consulted. Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "Of what?" mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the quite distinctive." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a the very morning of the wedding." rose-bushes. "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange himself to tell his story. "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband this truth that in these little records of our cases which you My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. fire. You quite follow me?" "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the married her." yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as easy-going way." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in retorted upon me, and I on you." there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three ashen face. Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal roused himself from his reverie. system of imprisonment?" Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you question you as to those details which seem to me to be most upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "So I am. Very much so." "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to me what he had done with the three missing stones. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "There are none." relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "Yes, it was twisted." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, weigh very heavily upon my conscience." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of late." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their page at http://pglaf.org place, I think that there is good ground to think that the you?" springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there business." or other trace. But how on earth--" "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by upon a handsome competence. will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "You have carte blanche." hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "Ah!" make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the you?' monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "Do you receive much company?" he asked. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "10th. John Swain cleared. "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Certainly." advice." The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you held up the lantern and gazed about him. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that did not hear it also.' really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "Seven!" I answered. retorted upon me, and I on you." "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "How long did she speak to this Alice?" and shall probably return to London by the evening train." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, union?" 1.F. in the hope of finding them." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, the roots. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "I will not look." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is to that open window." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a breakfast and whispered something to her husband.