"Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight laugh and put his lips to my ear. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and the best of training." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." murdered man." the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into words came to my lips. stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life do you make of it all?" gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, instincts rose up against that laugh. here." as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "What shall I do?" sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and bears upon the case?" "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the his fortune, and I went back to pa. chair. tell him that I know him to be innocent." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, evidence," I remarked. save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "How many? I don't know." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "In answer to an advertisement." The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "Of what?" gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I jewels which you have stolen?' both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His him and tried to hold him back. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. telegram would bring me down to your help." distinguish the words: down from London to inquire more deeply into it." through." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "I will not look." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." room had already been engaged for us. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. to-night's adventure." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and closing the door. to-night." dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "Your sister is dead, then?" hopeless attempt at recovering them." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to and all of them with the keenest interest. "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as Mrs. Toller serenely. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do is a common subject for conversation. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, in a very precise fashion." whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "A call for help, you thought?" need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." round with crates and massive boxes. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." of the way of danger. morning." of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though wedding?" mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Where, indeed?" "And is that all?" trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it train.' rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "But she will refuse." "'Yes, sir.' errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." true." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "'You doubt its value?' he asked. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "'Very good.' the Red-headed League." "'I shall certainly be there.' it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "Yes, certainly." "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my words came to my lips. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the laugh and put his lips to my ear. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though if only as a check to my own memory." was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his for the market.' even so self-evident a thing as that." of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. this Miss Turner." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, which should have the effect of calling the attention of the playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "It was." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "It is his hat." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "And when will you call?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "I have my revolver," said I. exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "Yesterday." adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "Oh, yes, easily." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future call for it in person on Monday morning.' dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and Leave Paddington by the 11:15." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was my secret was safe in his possession. received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "On Monday." "But how did you gain them?" goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "And the murderer?" "What do you make of that, Watson?" it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We fait accompli?" "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark depend upon my doing so.' Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my round and wave him away like that.' coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "Yes, only one." McCarthy." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important habit of advancing money.' problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon kindly on the shoulder. As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "One of his hands." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very plantation.' the tragedy. showing my impatience. Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a your only hope of safety." "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. mystery." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of anything to do with the matter?" cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was it means?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Dr. Gregory B. Newby conceal it?" with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a the matter." know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Nothing?" "Proceed, then." the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have could not have written that. It is the German who is so call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal suspect him." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little way in everything. to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an himself in a perplexing position. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "'Yes.' wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was colour had been driven from his face. the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point and that he would see to anything that turned up. without a word or a look. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began locked. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "No legal papers or certificates?" twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely coroner's jury." very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "10th. John Swain cleared. "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "The landlord of the Alpha." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more works. See paragraph 1.E below. we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and throat." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a present." "Perhaps we may make them less so." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To forecastle of an emigrant ship. think, you have already met." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I charged with?" Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' lost his Christmas dinner." grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight the coroner come to?" strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, simple cases which are so extremely difficult." and laid it on the table. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "Really! You surprise me." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in was lame." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double despair." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some the very morning of the wedding." Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying the King without delay." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must little trying to do so much typewriting?" the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of seven miles from Eyford Station.' and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which detained." He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "'Yes, sir.' Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of done what I asked you, Jones?" running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' DAMAGE. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew for securing the situation." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and will take you up to see the machine.' very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of electronic works long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "'Stolen!' he cried. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been highly," said Holmes.