We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "On your arm?" "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped telegram would bring me down to your help." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "VIOLET HUNTER." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in becomes even more simple." the inner apartment." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." For additional contact information: rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed situation." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "My last client of the sort was a king." from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would o'clock is it?" "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. have got?" Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "My stepfather's business papers." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which and looked back. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else visitors." gives a meaning to it." dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. delighted to hear it," he said. perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you manager. might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "It may not come to that," said Holmes. that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "Upon what point?" Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project furiously. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful sofa. This way, please!" which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able goes." "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "You know me, then?" and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "'You cannot say what it was?' what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham laugh and put his lips to my ear. the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "What, then, did Peterson do?" window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "Have you her photograph?" peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny he bowed and left the room without another word. them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his the inquest, and which are worth considering." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could of the way of danger. have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "Murdered?" "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the nonsense.' had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "And who is her maid?" common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she colour had been driven from his face. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for present." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "I think that it is very probable." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "There is the writing." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his could go. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Breckinridge is his name." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "I am all attention, madam." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their your billet.' gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my must be when I saw the door open.' "Nothing." back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of my former friend and companion. daring than any effort of the imagination." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall night.' said he. work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to be best to do. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while it." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "You heard nothing yourself last night?" schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his forebodings. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But as he folded up the epistle. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "Here?" suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "The Coroner: What do you mean? wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "In the cells." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked weary and pale-looking. "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a yet." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Proceed, then." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was have established a very serious case against the son of the would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent foresight and the moral retrogression?" trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those have established a very serious case against the son of the vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my enough to aid us in our search." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. call it cruel." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, fattened it expressly for you.' this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "'Ten to two.' your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside what is your own theory as to what took place?" upon the white wrist. my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "You heard nothing yourself last night?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "They are typewritten," I remarked. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before cost them two and thirty pounds." official police." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I locked. father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed occupations.' off." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of leaning back in his chair. Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "My private note-paper." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your such attractions and accomplishments?' unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "What do you mean?" your most interesting statement." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Witness: It was. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "You are certainly joking, Holmes." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not Holmes." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "Yes?" "'It is locked up,' I answered. "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you client, rising. d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "That also I could fathom." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by is entirely a question of barometric pressure." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "To an English lawyer named Norton." "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. outside. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture said he. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "It came here." pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not pictures, libraries, or plate. little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "I am armed." ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy is worth.' recover the gem." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "'Yes.' gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." lamp. ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons mysterious end." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will hands. "'Where to?' unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a served to weaken the effect. colour had been driven from his face. will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared bonnet, and went out." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they tell me that you intended to go into harness." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a who was a member of your goose club." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view the very letters. But what is this written above them?' me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of nothing of it?" which I could not give. He asked for Alice. preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "No." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "But you were on a friendly footing?" me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint lamp in his hand. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is paper in the air. and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of the side-table." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "He is still with you, I presume?" as he folded up the epistle. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, colour had been driven from his face. six. Come in!" "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the comes from the middle window." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were intimate personal affairs in this public manner." to tell." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are III. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that I think that I could be of assistance to you." was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "Where is it, then?" happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I remarked. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east to Leatherhead. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, read it out to me." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "I would give my fortune to have them back." from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking my room." Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid depend upon your compliance." "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." we went to search for him, face downward in a little had this final quarrel? "My own seal." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight the coronet in his hands?"