abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "And how did you verify them?" "No, but the enclosure is." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special where she found matters as described by the last witness. "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "It is true that I have been generally successful." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his already referred to. 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and me what he had done with the three missing stones. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my What do you deduce from it?" "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" rooms." kindly on the shoulder. http://www.gutenberg.net "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Precisely so. But how--" father's young wife. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "Which are?" with frightened eyes at his accuser. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about yourselves in at night?" "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his during that time.' "I don't believe it." admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, our word." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you which are rolled in Rotterdam." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for impression behind it as though a window had gently closed Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us in the hope of finding them." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was I leave." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "Always." continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "Ah, but I was recommended to you." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day and the church but not where the lady lived." house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "Then I shall certainly come." fled together." "His face fell immediately. smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "Married! When?" walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "And why?" such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "He said too much." what I may call a really hard day's work." a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." again." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend open." Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "And you don't know his address?" my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of definite end. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it present strange and interesting features that it is no easy meant it for the best. "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed one else, I think." "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it most interesting one." acted in my house last night?" papers must be those that are destroyed.' very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. most interesting one." of it with the greatest attention. answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all will be renamed. to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and no precautions can guard against." "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE himself in a perplexing position. McCarthy." Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email the salesman. "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "Do you know him?" cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "But how did you gain them?" considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a constraint." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the nights." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a III. at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "'I have heard so.' noble correspondent could be. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of http://gutenberg.net/license). "My photograph." reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a a few minutes he said that it would be all right. suggested at once that there must be a communication between the it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked during that time.' find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "No. What a strange idea!" night.' said he. himself in a perplexing position. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been affair. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "And why?" "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what the south-west, I see." it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is I nodded again. "Yes." beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded certainly not very gracious." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this the room while you explain this matter?" week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended said he, "my real name is James Ryder." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. tightly behind him. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, in one or two places in England?' "No?" it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away I shall communicate with you." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to constraint." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "I answered that I had not. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the better grown goose." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "So I have heard." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. excitement. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "Not I." incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. a good hundred miles off by now." were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "How on earth--" was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, tear off another piece?' "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done photograph?" his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I with frightened eyes at his accuser. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "That you are never beaten." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' about here speaks of his kindness to him." "That was it, sir." guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It silent! Oh, he will be silent!' woman." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the forbidden door. tell them apart.' put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "It is solved." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water said he at last. "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said Gutenberg-tm License. "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "'And what salary do you ask?' o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "This concluded the examination of the witness." would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere 1.E.9. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I official police." and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where long narrative. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom open." "Nothing?" paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "'Then let me do so?' "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" whereabouts. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" Eyford at 11:15.' dates and names. "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "Yes, from Horsham." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found Project Gutenberg-tm works. there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "We must have a cab." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "I answered that I had not. betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, all?" urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "Not in the least." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' voice. bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. your bag." There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is wedding?" and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more them?" where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass the inner apartment." he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid Gutenberg-tm License. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." writing, and yet I know it well." "You think so, too?" "'It is locked up,' I answered. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "No, my brougham is waiting." slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard the side-table." photograph?" "No." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Then I am your man." open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "None." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "Nothing?" he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "Absolutely?" Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a appeal." "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it papers must be those that are destroyed.' dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "It may not come to that," said Holmes. bird I ate is country bred." the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "And what did you learn from him?" "It must be recovered." orange pips. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, following enigmatical notices: would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. ready to-morrow?' turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "How did you deduce the select?" with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "But she could not love him." friends, not even his own brother. does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had to miss it." learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "Then how many are there?" and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning know what is wrong with it.' "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several and the whole place is in a blaze." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over compunction about shooting them down." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "Will you bet, then?" received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the which I could not give. He asked for Alice. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white standing smiling on the door-step. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George is a common subject for conversation. attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a arms and began to sob in a high treble key. misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever in him." his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and fait accompli?" dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found it with his own hands." himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of better grown goose." a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the during the last few years, and there are many noble families to Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "'Yes, I promise.' silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his burst out into a roar of laughter. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the