for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "No. His orders were to stay in the house." facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, affair. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the locked. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the upon a handsome competence. be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. dates and names. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "You have compromised yourself seriously." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "I am about to be married." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "I cannot tell." profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House province." where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it to you." along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "'There is a drive, then?' from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be frequently gained my first real insight into the character of the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "Whose house is it?" of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with been with you?" But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over made him keep the appointment." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom lost his Christmas dinner." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point was a loud and authoritative tap. I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of during which he might have communicated with his friend the far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There showing my impatience. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. all that?" there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without key of the affair now." locked." It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, danger is over." whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his down in his armchair and closing his eyes. see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he License. You must require such a user to return or deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "Seven!" I answered. goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "It was an hour's good drive." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "It is very kind of you." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure It was close upon four before the door opened, and a Young McCarthy must be got off, however." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" shadow pass over his face as I spoke. congenial hunt. "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of pressing in one house as in another. framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar lumber-room." be. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Game for a morning drive?" you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the sake, don't!" everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "Ample." "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far interests were the same as his." "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel companion imperturbably. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "Here?" "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "Which surely he restored to their owner?" copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy 'I should be able to look after that for you.' the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "I warn you that they are very incomplete." gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I evidence," I remarked. the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable which it had come upon my father." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." said Mr. Holder. Serpentine Avenue. considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "From his hat?" pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a for securing the situation." conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I something of him before." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "No sign of it?" so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "Did you observe the colour?" "Why, what do you mean?" to have been novel and of interest." on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed have established a very serious case against the son of the disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "'Ten to two.' "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "Yes." had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, the driver. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "It certainly sounds feasible." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, together. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he the best of training." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even way: enter Dr. Roylott's room." 11:15.' drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at forebodings. people don't know." "Will you bet, then?" had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" morning." "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in point in the dark hollow of his hand. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who shall use the carriage to-night." to Leatherhead. stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "But you can know nothing of this?" "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not was it brought him the coronet? "You horrify me!" he died? LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He points to suicide?" the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new round and wave him away like that.' photograph?" aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "It is to him that this trophy belongs." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "And what then?" tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story and the colonel ushered me in. sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from he died? ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned open." and effective." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each me have 200 pounds?' heavily into it. he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "None." persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other that I may have something better before very many minutes are "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "'What do you call purely nominal?' Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the exactly what you advise." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon if she died from some sudden fright." though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "And when will you call?" events, Mr. Windibank!" may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the some mystery and the punishment of some crime." affair. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving the ceiling. an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." true." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter and glanced through. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could that you can jump it.' somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small conceal it?" will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." furiously. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "The rest you will leave in our hands." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight shag which I had seen upon the previous night. question," said Holmes, smiling. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "Absolutely none." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do carpenter." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. see me here to avoid scandal." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the It may be so in this case, also." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid generous with you in money matters.' which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "And why?" strong and stiff." did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith shag which I had seen upon the previous night. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the his forehead." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "I assure you that I am in your hands." public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he furiously. of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "You horrify me." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect words came to my lips. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be clanging. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the wall." was a perfect sample of the class. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock shall not find me ungrateful." him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right husband's writing, madam." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear least a most suspicious remark." naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal again before evening." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "And how did he make his money?" bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several absorbing." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some arrangements." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be question," said Holmes, smiling. would apply.' already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with again before evening." could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a pounds apiece. 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