"But she could not love him." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. wedding?" front of the hall door has given its name to the place. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. true." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather problems help me to do so." incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "Yes." "Did you observe the colour?" the matter?" neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "But how did you gain them?" afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, highroad, where all traces were lost. "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening be sorry for having acted so harshly." Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with have had none more fantastic than this." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project you in your example." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have you." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window morning." mysterious business." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive attention." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "Stolen." he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "Could he throw no light?" door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no meant." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was you for a few hours?" prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all made him keep the appointment." and all of them with the keenest interest. "You horrify me!" dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the photograph?" Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." must be when I saw the door open.' I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very grasp, he hurried from the room. "This concluded the examination of the witness." his cane at the bell-pull. spark where all is dark to me." the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about fat-encircled eyes. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the papers must be those that are destroyed.' o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital fish-monger and a tide-waiter." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His confronted him. edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "Nothing." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock before the coroner and the police-court." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the copied or distributed: arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "She walked into the breakfast-room." dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding goes." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter ordinary clothes on?" force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, is so. I know all about McCarthy." "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "'I am sure that I do not know.' "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "You have carte blanche." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "From his hat?" characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." morning." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "One of the highest in England." so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Get out!" said he. The note was undated, and without either signature or address. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not 1.F. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I forbidden door. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "Then you may be so with me." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that colonel looking down at me. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which was it brought him the coronet? "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' the coroner come to?" "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. gone. thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "And you don't know his address?" There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me he bowed and left the room without another word. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "Then, how do you know?" "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" help us in this matter." "And how?" have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "I never have." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be redistribution. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town he. only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was and wait." "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with sooner or later she must fall a victim. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in simple cases which are so extremely difficult." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, amused." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a newspaper selections." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At newspaper selections." prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a hands. prison!" hardly wander." as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can money should be paid at once.' "And it is--" refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "Why serious?" take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. from you?" may have an influence upon European history." "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised to a more successful conclusion." without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp bearing upon the case." "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "Well, but China?" "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "What, then?" the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy you in yours." lost his Christmas dinner." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found that, and I came down." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. politicians who had been sent down from the North. the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when directors have had misgivings upon the subject." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "By no means." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal good for you to do.' was not a bird to be seen there. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until letters?" half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one test if we have an answer to our advertisement." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "Very well, sir. And this stone?" out." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you absorbing." despaired of." case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir in darkness. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I be. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the plantation.' him and tried to hold him back. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in following enigmatical notices: look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! the room while you explain this matter?" battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his any." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo Holmes." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "We were both in the photograph." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. in this way: and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most as noiselessly as she had come. a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too in his power. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread until night should bring an explanation. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became that?' "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "'Yes.' minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some in. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." derbies." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Here?" with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than visitors." "Where, then, is my wife?" glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and him nearly every evening." "So I have heard." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with your equipment. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little brain must have something in it." the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we thin legs towards the fire. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the his cane at the bell-pull. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the directors, with the result that you have seen." his fortune, and I went back to pa. "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and became a certainty. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: me. You must get home instantly and act." into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, which we had just quitted. fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something questioning and rather startled gaze. feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "Imitated." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "So it appears." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us feature." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "'Is 4 pounds a week.' leave you to your papers for a little." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the to some other building. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for his knees, staring into the fire. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "I promise," said Holmes. on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the that?' teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone forehead. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for