lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." particular state visit http://pglaf.org of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "But your client--" she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. death." like that before?" fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite if I call to-morrow?" the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy the south-west, I see." "Certainly." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill Stoke Moran." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Never to return." "Was your sister dressed?" a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some occupations.' the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "Indeed! Whose, then?" so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in without success. At last the little money which I had saved began and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious the south-west, I see." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master grasp, he hurried from the room. sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the Chief Executive and Director you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, them?" colonel looking down at me. "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" was it brought him the coronet? answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and humiliation." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "You were travelling in the States?" "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. of the one which your family is now devouring." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent chambers. of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. constraint." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would pound a week." lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down him nearly every evening." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a said he at last. be best to do. disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "Whose house is it?" "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "No. What a strange idea!" him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must how narrow had been my escape. when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody bled considerably." "Nothing?" "He might." ready to-morrow?' shaken than I had ever seen him. "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I visitors." "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than subject to the trademark license, especially commercial round and wave him away like that.' "Certainly, madam." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon outside. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle gone. "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence o'clock is it?" waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike perplexity from it to my illustrious client. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "But your client--" at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out leave you to your papers for a little." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, rooms." highroad, where all traces were lost. them present such singular features as the strange train of his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. hand, madam?" from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "No sign of it?" this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from mystery may be cleared along those lines." Munro.' colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence forebodings. unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began hurried by. "That sounds a little paradoxical." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back persecution?" have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be unclasping of his long thin hands. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business have not had my rubber." to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the promised to bring home. and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and rooms." caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the felt the room to be a little close.' "None." "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a approach us with offers to donate. John Swain, of St. Augustine. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could distinguish the words: without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at your troubles." window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal not use it unless it is absolutely needed." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." upon the shelf for the interim." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Nothing?" man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended during that time.' "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "How did you trace it, then?" and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by cost them two and thirty pounds." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. you?" her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood long narrative. to-morrow." will he say when he returns?" voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "Do you go out much in society?" been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "I promise," said Holmes. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use and have this put in the evening papers." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my Street. the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "Yesterday." lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, train from Paddington which would bring you there at about that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "You have but to name it." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other pierced for earrings?" think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and vault. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. photograph a cabinet?" ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "What do you make of that, Watson?" really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! was the fact that his father should, according to his account, without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life handed it to him. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. again, where I was soon asleep. his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." with her." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate most interesting one." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, villagers almost as much as their master. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the guilty one." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." situation." question," said Holmes, smiling. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, is acting for the best. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "She showed me, as I told you she would." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst acquaintance?" "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks disturbance in my wife." "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "And you can do nothing until then?" work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case the matter." It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. himself to tell his story. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly my former friend and companion. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, distinguish the words: that threaten you." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "No legal papers or certificates?" "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There all?" in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while of the one which your family is now devouring." dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "And how?" James Windibank. Voilà tout!" surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had straighten it?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up unprofitable." evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "The rest you will leave in our hands." "I cannot imagine." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "It certainly sounds feasible." were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. you?" "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "No." prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a knowledge of the world." in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime would then never go into court at all." there in twenty minutes." "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. http://gutenberg.net/license). he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Proceed, then." William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "My dear Holmes!" "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to Leave Paddington by the 11:15." my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I something of him before." Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. your sleep?' brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 were wasted." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "The rest you will leave in our hands." doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "None." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which Pool. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. three of the beryls in it, was missing. that he has suffered." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took never will be, entirely cleared up. "'Never,' said I. really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys October 9, 1890. central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. six. Come in!" comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it Stoke Moran." Sutherland?" star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' to a more successful conclusion." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small for and were ordered to this address. residence of the great financier. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A closing the door. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "But how?" toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs tail." there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a laugh and put his lips to my ear. and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, had no one to advise her at such a crisis." on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I.