it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "And you can do nothing until then?" from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying bonnet, and went out." gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," handed it to him. "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips himself. strode off upon his way. her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "And did you observe any change in her then?" general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" four million human beings all jostling each other within the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "I am sure." "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" your sleep?' deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the page at http://pglaf.org hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return over here." did not hear it also.' miles off. of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "Why? What do you mean?" overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "I cannot think." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. your equipment. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured one of the states of the Union." and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "Stoke Moran?" said he. too. ventilator." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold at home. would then never go into court at all." there." saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of out." III. call it cruel." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Then you may entirely rely on me." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "'In my own bureau.' "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a the tragedy. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, and put his glass in his pocket. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "The decline of his fortunes, then?" murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with could not account in any way for the presence of the missing clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that friend's singular character. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "Come in!" said Holmes. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the said he at last. national property. I was determined that the law should have its directors have had misgivings upon the subject." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have started for the Temple to see my husband. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of residence of the great financier. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." answer." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my McCarthy." his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he should be so warm over such a trifle." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four occupations.' children over to America with him, so that I found myself without But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, Stoke Moran." reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of what these perils are?" that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer followed. platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "What is it, then--a fire?" footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis hard-headed British jury." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "He is still with you, I presume?" her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "Just look it up, then." distinguish the words: sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "But to whom?" "There is the writing." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will since then to throw any light upon what became of him." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right outside. ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "On the contrary, this is the right side." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair stammered. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "'I shall certainly be there.' but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "I will, Miss Turner." the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. the very morning of the wedding." "What! a murderous attack?" something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "Murdered?" penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "And now?" I asked. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He fear." "Yes, the wine-cellar." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "Precisely so. But how--" "Where, then?" and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "About a month then." "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "I see many objections to any such theory." hard-headed British jury." "I shall most certainly do so." were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right fattened it expressly for you.' before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle dramatic, in fact." my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "'As governess?' fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the frequently gained my first real insight into the character of How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my once more for Briony Lodge. shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "What do you make of that, Watson?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. outside. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this go from here to the Strand." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Yes, it was twisted." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, think that any burglar could have done. o'clock is it?" the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "May I see it?" The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project been deceived." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a signal between you and your father? "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign spare." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "I would pay ten." before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in details should find their way into the papers. Inspector granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to were new raised from a basin. turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless there were one or two details which were new to me. But the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I country, and eventually married, without anyone having a showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. indeed happy." fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective it." problems help me to do so." hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on weapon." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "Of what?" confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "Never to return." Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe in a very precise fashion." was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, swore that no one else had been in the front room during the that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was you do it in twenty minutes!' the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me the driver. "Certainly." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were McCarthy's innocence. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my fattened it expressly for you.' know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my the Friday. Was it to be in church?" neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after nice household for a young lady." "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that and have this put in the evening papers." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" fled together." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him good-night and bustled off upon her way. "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, than was visible to me." call the police, let the police find what they can.' carpenter." "Oh, fresh and glossy." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that ashen face. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, to have that photograph." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical me. the driver. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "Then how many are there?" into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "He slept on the premises." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us bonnet, and went out." little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "Quite so." "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or IS master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "What then?" that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land not, dad?" she asked. empty. door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "No, but the enclosure is." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make generous with you in money matters.' But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage it." sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "Yes, I have one waiting." been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "Get out!" said he. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "I guessed as much." I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me photograph a cabinet?" first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who to his chemical studies. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some his cane at the bell-pull. enter Dr. Roylott's room." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, know that the truth is known." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. place no limit on the sum I may draw." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As mystery may be cleared along those lines." congratulate you again." "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. DAMAGE. people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, later, upon the night of May 2nd." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "It looks newer than the other things?" wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which like gravel from a pit.' ago." determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "Did you become engaged then?" of them has the shutters up.' events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "No bad?" statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to http://www.gutenberg.net frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover IS what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me visitors." Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. 11:15.' "But not more so than I to find you." instituted." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence the window, rose as we entered. have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may interested in these little problems, and since you are good closely." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "Imitated." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged prisoner's face. the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy his huge brown hands.