as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the noble correspondent could be. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel did not hear it also.' "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to individual and becomes the badge of a society." purpose equally well?" edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very nice household for a young lady." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled the inquest, and which are worth considering." "'Yes, it was gone.' "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son passage and a tap at the door. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he shag which I had seen upon the previous night. when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her felt?" adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Why, what do you mean?" which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "This photograph!" think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been which it had come upon my father." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but as this. Pray let me have the details." left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing any." "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look side. eavesdroppers?' Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut an introduction to him?" more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your Cross for the Continent." telegram would bring me down to your help." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing wife's character?" and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "Awake, Watson?" he asked. the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "Entirely." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "That is not always so easy." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "I have hopes." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. he. never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "Absolutely?" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "I cannot think." "One of the highest in England." "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had goes." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other four million human beings all jostling each other within the return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a to-night's adventure." coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "Where did you address your letters, then?" his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near asked. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a wall." drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "Here?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the may have an influence upon European history." the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the Count Von Kramm." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped lost his Christmas dinner." "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "It was." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "Bought." now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until crowd. secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a fasten all the windows?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." from the brougham. if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your upon a handsome competence. my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the there were so many in the whole country as were brought together the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. walking." hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that be. have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my address. them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, I took the paper from him and read as follows: WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to Sutherland. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "'Never.' he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose skylight. his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' Again Holmes raved in the air. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. will he say when he returns?" together. you?" the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the them?" "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the true." which our visitor detailed to us. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. been shamefully used." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." true." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "I have my revolver," said I. place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I companion. traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will security.' inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable cost them two and thirty pounds." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "May I see it?" plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "About a month then." about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen been shamefully used." national property. I was determined that the law should have its "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "What then?" very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. is worth.' suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." there." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as be.' before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "Only as much as we can deduce." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. was a loud and authoritative tap. and I shall be with you presently." "Dr. Becher's." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so thin, with a long, sharp nose?" back to my heart. while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "Was he the only applicant?" fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "How about poison?" "Certainly." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were His smile broadened. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy the address that was given us in the advertisement. reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but breakfast." the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I manager. "No, finished." was not a bird to be seen there. Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, new duties?' down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "But how could you guess what the motive was?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point crime." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of national property. I was determined that the law should have its end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she unprofitable." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a the coronet in his hands?" young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "She walked into the breakfast-room." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror least a fellow-countryman. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "'What then?' I asked. "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "But you would not advise me to refuse?" better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Ten will be early enough." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The rose-bushes. his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was McCarthy's innocence. The summons was a brief and urgent one. ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "Who by?" used to be." your billet.' "No." cup of tea. it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "We must sit without light. He would see it through the respectable self." this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at sooner or later she must fall a victim. "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in It may be so in this case, also." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "Absolutely?" A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and be there in time for your coming." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I if only as a check to my own memory." colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "But you have hopes?" made him keep the appointment." crime." don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office definite end. "I think it very unlikely." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "But how will you look?" really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall always that they were such commands as a lady might with you?' the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, made him keep the appointment." sparkled upon his finger. devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "Ha! you find it so?" out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem rooms." "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." strong and stiff." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and room?" after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "At what time?" "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "It is no ordinary one." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had read it out to me." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "And now?" I asked. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, American. Then who could this American be, and why should he hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." telegram would bring me down to your help." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "But what harm can there be in that?" woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be been." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of nothing of it?" investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done