until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "It must be recovered." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "Yes, the wine-cellar." That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Certainly, madam." "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, companion. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Where does the thing come from?' left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in conduct the inquiry." and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "Imitated." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "In the cells." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a matters immensely." and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, over here." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" young Openshaw's." door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the questioning and rather startled gaze. newspaper selections." scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events other lovers by making love himself." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I have established a very serious case against the son of the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through look upon these things in a different way." The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with the armchair which I pushed forward for him. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the giving me time to thank him. "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "My dear Holmes!" reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found investigation." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "That is easily got." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "That is unusual in a young girl." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "My opinion is in no way altered." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "9th. McCauley cleared. When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end it with his own hands." Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists speckled band?" zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as soul! here is her carriage at the door." following enigmatical notices: however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment again before evening." convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "'Yes, sir.' deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room from the brougham. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "You heard nothing yourself last night?" expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal deduce something from that?" could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of the room while you explain this matter?" away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, at a side door. Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door charge against him will break down." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It now. It seems that there had been some informality about their the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which might help us?" and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan sound at heart." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low distance from the station, and there we found the young lady call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if at once, for I have only half an hour." "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "My photograph." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no of it with the greatest attention. felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not could not have written that. It is the German who is so station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that already been minutely examined." "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "Indeed! Whose, then?" from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to out of this horrible affair." mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking highroad, where all traces were lost. cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after of the one which your family is now devouring." misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never gbnewby@pglaf.org and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be is now desirous of getting those letters back." One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by secret." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their down from London to inquire more deeply into it." one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this infinite languor in his face. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." breakfast." that no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" the so-precious time, but come!' pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain salesman. devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He imbecility!" he cried. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate breakfast?" "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of Munro.' thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. fat-encircled eyes. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "'What would be the hours?' I asked. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in my little problems." from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest persecution?" pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. careless servant girl?" week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that evidence," I remarked. "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "But to whom?" daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "And what did you see?" husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep too. corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some ventilator." adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "'You doubt its value?' he asked. cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "An accident, I presume?" "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand cigar and let me expound." "Here?" me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His all that?" rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "'Yes, sir.' I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his some water from a caraffe. criminal. We have already had experience of such." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "But she could not love him." laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "By all means." "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a individual and becomes the badge of a society." change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. late." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may coat-tails." misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "And when will you call?" "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. and the church but not where the lady lived." to have that photograph." "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "But you were on a friendly footing?" Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "What have you to say now?" and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "It came here." very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and DISSOLVED. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' over with notes and figures. outbreak?" murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the conversation I have gathered that they have been married about prisoner's face. the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." me where it went to?" "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Nothing?" "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "Have you it here?" Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will said I. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "You have but to name it." question," said Holmes, smiling. business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding gone. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "Have you her photograph?" long narrative. happened." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "You have but to name it." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A obstinate." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "'I have heard so.' see me here to avoid scandal." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she been with you?" "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "The landlord of the Alpha." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington astonishment. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive your bag." The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House have been better. It is all right." most important business. It is probable that he will be away all That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we goes." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "Do you receive much company?" he asked. for the market.' you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. humiliation." ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "Imitated." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me.