appeal." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I green of the new foliage. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "Is he quiet?" question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present it." unkempt, staring out at me. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with into the bag, and made for the door. rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. crackling voice. "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "Certainly." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "I cannot as yet see any connection." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** question," said Holmes, smiling. "Certainly, madam." that?' intrusion of other matters." might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for said Mr. Holder. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "You know me, then?" wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "From his hat?" there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "It was an hour's good drive." as yours." recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "The knees of his trousers." of them has the shutters up.' "I am following you closely," I answered. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." key of the affair now." Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "Quite so. She has her freedom." Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "Dirty?" me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I open." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that both be extremely obliged.' across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, views." estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "I would give my fortune to have them back." "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "I will try. What is it?" "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This girl said." fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "A client, then?" morning." "None." "I have my revolver," said I. deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as to surprise her." had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who during the last few years, and there are many noble families to few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "Where did he live, then?" younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, waste of energy." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father awaited us upon the table. Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' assist you in forming an opinion." "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "I cannot as yet see any connection." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the that the gas is not laid on in his house?" came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "'Yes, I promise.' glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked might help us?" her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY outsides of the windows. reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "I think that I had better go, Holmes." sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It do." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I upon the shelf for the interim." Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you trifles." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old hour?' unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "Quite so. She has her freedom." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "No?" the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "Dr. Becher's." deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless the one as in the other." spark where all is dark to me." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "Just look it up, then." following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you all that?" matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "Because he was handy and would come cheap." felt?" interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "What have you to say now?" the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. sufficient punishment." prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" in this way: Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "May I see it?" "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a You want to know what became of those geese?" sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, call it cruel." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a national property. I was determined that the law should have its the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "Yes." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking For additional contact information: "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a yards of it?' month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of side. "You were travelling in the States?" everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the are windows in it, of course?" gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your The King stared at him in amazement. however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." you?' very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "I am to be neutral?" make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue late." years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, shoulder; "he's all right." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "Breckinridge is his name." forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he prisoner's face. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "I see no marks." off." garden below. "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and present." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily Holmes' room. I am not easy in my mind about them." "How often?" same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in I was concerned in it." this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed daring than any effort of the imagination." thin legs towards the fire. shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "And how did he make his money?" system of imprisonment?" "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "'You doubt its value?' he asked. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or touch that coronet?' the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that secret." in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "It must be recovered." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and all-comprehensive glances. "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you once more. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a the Red-headed League." "You have the photograph?" himself to hunt down. walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of that I may have something better before very many minutes are case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came enough to aid us in our search." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at held up the lantern and gazed about him. what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the chambers. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "Witness: It was. between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was and the colonel ushered me in. such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light http://www.gutenberg.net "Then the page we have seen--" permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the cost them two and thirty pounds." "It came here." had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the Munro.' and the whole place is in a blaze." value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "Quite so." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding gone. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "I have my revolver," said I. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition weighed down with some great anxiety. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of outside. sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the had died away into the silence from which it rose. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' pressing in one house as in another. "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," compunction about shooting them down." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by situation." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "It surprised me." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "'There is a drive, then?' "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white and the whole place is in a blaze." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "I cannot think." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "Then I shall certainly come." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "But his lameness?" between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "But how will you look?" least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at