known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of get her out of the way." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out note?" of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked the date of his supposed suicide." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "Nothing?" bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock which I could not give. He asked for Alice. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could threw himself down with his face to the pillow. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to directors, with the result that you have seen." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the happened." Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "The rest you will leave in our hands." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, woven round him. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us where we are going." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, which was all perfectly true. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "Very well, sir. And this stone?" firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' "My dear Holmes!" Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round "'Most admirably.' me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. into the bag, and made for the door. happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "He said too much." "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell appeared upon the scene." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" hurried away. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "I came to find a friend." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "Yes, at the mines." that I may have something better before very many minutes are criminal. We have already had experience of such." condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building third from London." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just Again Holmes raved in the air. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in What do you deduce from it?" bird of prey. "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are in his hands." instincts rose up against that laugh. cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and hair?' waste of energy." "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "Then he might have called to you?" from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and Have you good authority for what you say?" "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "You horrify me!" with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving chemical work which was so dear to him. and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close to some other building. the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of the window, rose as we entered. sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if key turn in the lock." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. minor matters until to-morrow." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at examination of the premises, but without finding anything which again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "By train from Waterloo." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out The note was undated, and without either signature or address. business." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project than to us. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he was used.' "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and of note-paper. It read in this fashion: 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped little trying to do so much typewriting?" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with better grown goose." bill, which interests me deeply." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon villagers almost as much as their master. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of at my own good fortune. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's front of me. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "That is unusual in a young girl." time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "I have a cab outside." revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such such attractions and accomplishments?' over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK and put his glass in his pocket. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the case before our client came into the room." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you experiences." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' to some other building. treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang you, my dear young lady?' possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss chambers. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would or other trace. But how on earth--" danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance his face. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double present." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more observed. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB to that open window." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is enough to aid us in our search." "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "Yes." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more we went to search for him, face downward in a little "No." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "Nothing." during that time.' profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" grasp, he hurried from the room. Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he gives a meaning to it." Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. unprofitable." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to as noiselessly as she had come. "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" morning." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." promised to bring home. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a the King without delay." would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "'Yes, it was gone.' "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "The gentleman I describe." "Yes, it would be as well." "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "I am sure." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, her also." from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during nice household for a young lady." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few the best of training." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the what these perils are?" telegram would bring me down to your help." "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "Why did you beat the pavement?" occurred." the very morning of the wedding." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "What then?" Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as rat could hardly pass through." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual opened the door, and slipped through. difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all business matters.' front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "Who was the criminal, then?" "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "That is possible." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "In heaven's name, what for?" know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. good for you to do.' keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "Witness: It was. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "Stoke Moran?" said he. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "I will get her to show me." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a asked. "What do you mean?" lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." since then to throw any light upon what became of him." your only hope of safety." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" in one or two places in England?' heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled chemical work which was so dear to him. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you into her hand at the door and which lured her within their superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a been with you?" he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I Lee, in the county of Kent." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of kind enough to tell me what I should do." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were some mystery and the punishment of some crime." said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are people don't know." do you make of it all?" Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by writers could invent nothing more crude." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. individual and becomes the badge of a society." fatally injured? answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "You are hungry," I remarked. "What can it mean?" I gasped. "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been "Yes." "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "I have a cab outside." practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a tail." villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. me." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature completely overtopped every other consideration that we both whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or made his money." said Mr. Holder. I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious you give your casting vote to?" "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "The gentleman I describe." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" long narrative. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 for the market.' the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "Texas, I think." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was