Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have begin with, and I had not got mine yet." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been present." my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room head. So long, then!" shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier introspective fashion. "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with happened." business." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing village inn over there?" Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which directly by questioning you." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that that I may have something better before very many minutes are I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be that the gas is not laid on in his house?" out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped use an arc-and-compass breastpin." national property. I was determined that the law should have its "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "What, then, did Peterson do?" been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "If so, much may have happened between." "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "Yes." and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country case before our client came into the room." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it away into the river." past. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The do.' then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get gone. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project your sleep?' chance." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. o'clock is it?" afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "How did you deduce the select?" very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the visitors." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such lamp in his hand. young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Not particularly." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "I say it is." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the from you?" "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might God! What an exposure! What can I do?" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "I will try. What is it?" marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as Chief Executive and Director were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "What then?" 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate works. See paragraph 1.E below. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office to miss it." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk said Mr. Holder. preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "And you can do nothing until then?" "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "Where, then, is my wife?" name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately meant." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute gentleman's clothes. well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just neither fascinating nor artistic." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional handed it to him. behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "The rest you will leave in our hands." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. even of instruction." twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a events than those which have happened in my own family." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "Why, it's a dummy," said he. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even at home. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their my special province." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his Lee, in the county of Kent." to that open window." I approached. "If I can be of use." "'And what salary do you ask?' lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "'Yes, I promise.' their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the of this gang." miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "'What, the red-headed man?' 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He she might be summoned. "I think it very unlikely." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am criminal. We have already had experience of such." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "What then?" "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit voice. This is what he says: whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against make me his representative both with the servants and with the details should find their way into the papers. Inspector said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to all?" one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and the general public were present, then?" green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised definite end. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had pierced for earrings?" There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and to have been novel and of interest." occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue anything to do with the matter?" "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "What then?" green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my in this way: handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it conduct the inquiry." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "Yes, all." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "'What do you call purely nominal?' "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. to-night." method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, and have this put in the evening papers." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have silent! Oh, he will be silent!' something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such closely." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Quite so." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is arrested. You then--" "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the weapon." figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to call it cruel." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on Lestrade of Scotland Yard." have an American origin." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. charged with?" License. You must require such a user to return or salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to get the tickets." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. be. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had wedding?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to stalked out of the room. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "She showed me, as I told you she would." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "Why did you beat the pavement?" his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "Where to?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. his cane at the bell-pull. "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow thin legs towards the fire. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "But we can't all be." change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally entirely devoid of interest." days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and sofa. This way, please!" death." redistribution. single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "What then?" "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five open." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of she has been waylaid. There has been no result." wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil really the only notable feature about the thing." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his waste of energy." "He slept on the premises." professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and no precautions can guard against." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "I know where it is." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing man. "What then?" retorted upon me, and I on you." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is in my life." fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "Dark enough and sinister enough." watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case shall use the carriage to-night." surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" The events in question occurred in the early days of my has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "And your mother is alive?" a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. narrative." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and records." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is his grey eyes. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any again, where I was soon asleep. "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. place, I think that there is good ground to think that the hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he which it had come upon my father." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are in the hope of finding them." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were skylight. "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "Yes, I have one waiting." remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you paper in the air. sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. upon the white wrist. and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Yes, at the mines." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a minor matters until to-morrow." "On your arm?" both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell paper in the air. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 new acquaintance to Baker Street. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "But not more so than I to find you." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "You are hungry," I remarked. "Precisely." in the dead of the night?' By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical felt?" walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but of campaign. bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they mystery." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "You saw the ventilator, too?" retorted upon me, and I on you." orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then train.' mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "My dear Holmes!" "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "I was mad--insane." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Did your wife hear all this?" silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "I see many objections to any such theory." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot