time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an said he. met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots nothing of it?" same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might thin, with a long, sharp nose?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "Where is it, then?" "'And what are they worth?' I asked. thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" introspective fashion. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have examination of the premises, but without finding anything which was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an his grey eyes. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of his face which made him a very different person to the round, go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried have accepted such a situation. ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "But you were on a friendly footing?" puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "'Not at all. I only doubt--' opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "Perhaps I have." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "'Oh, no.' detective. I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a page at http://pglaf.org touch that coronet?' "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the lamp. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile certainly do as you advise." matter." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of any little problem which you may submit to me." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "One?" bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the business came to an end." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it certainly do as you advise." business matters.' relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was has little to do with my story." and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in Does that suggest anything?" the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other I shall communicate with you." south, for the country is more deserted there." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "You know me, then?" fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised skylight. "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "My dear Holmes!" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "Look there!" said he. purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "The doctor?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "What have you to say now?" "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open everything which you would wish to know." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of visitors." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "Nothing." have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "'Certainly not.' harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope said he. "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "To an English lawyer named Norton." several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "I see many objections to any such theory." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "Why did you pick him?" "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "But I am all in the dark." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock the bottom.' the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "You will not go there first?" devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "It surprised me." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "You did not overhear what they said?" "'What would be the hours?' I asked. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the at once, for I have only half an hour." not as remarkable as your advertisement." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me locked. key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his leaning back in his chair. and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Yes." "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil see me here to avoid scandal." which are rolled in Rotterdam." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." lips." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was what these perils are?" master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "Here?" could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose and a shock of very red hair. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his his cane at the bell-pull. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had prepare for the new role I have to play." ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "Will you go?" upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a memory. "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "No. His orders were to stay in the house." and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official secret." a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "Of what?" Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" respectable self." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all done what I asked you, Jones?" "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "Where, then, is my wife?" that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to questioning and rather startled gaze. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "Who by?" breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. husband's writing, madam." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "'Is 4 pounds a week.' round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of 1.F. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your and have this put in the evening papers." up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "At the wedding breakfast." constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your all-comprehensive glances. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "And your mother is alive?" where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I the tragedy. him nearly every evening." "'Oh, no.' "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the nonsense.' figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, death." "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me your room." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "I promise," said Holmes. a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, everything which you would wish to know." "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I anything to a woman, for she would have her way." up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short leave you to your papers for a little." "I beg pardon." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "You forget that I know nothing about it." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "Yes. He waved his hands." after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the behind me. suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "But not more so than I to find you." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "What! You do not mean bodies?" madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "I would pay ten." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other were new raised from a basin. "The King of Scandinavia." their singular warning or token before them when starting upon very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy criminal. We have already had experience of such." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer The note was undated, and without either signature or address. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "'Then let me do so?' "Yes, only one." which should have the effect of calling the attention of the though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "Ah!" see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "I was mad--insane." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be is worth.' and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "May I see it?" "Where, then?" bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the James Windibank. Voilà tout!" walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "An enemy?" very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. some water from a caraffe. it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further dates and names. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was his wife has ceased to love him." should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "It missed him, then?" uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "I guessed as much." preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk key of the affair now." go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from quickly through a disagreeable task. with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, and effective." "It is very clear." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was events, Mr. Windibank!" "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" the warnings." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it disappearance of these gems?" "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic that?' over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is of receipt of the work. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the ceremony." the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are you." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." Miss Holder?" we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" has little to do with my story." works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our with her." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable,