likely to be some crony of the landlady's." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have green of the new foliage. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Very murderous indeed." you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have notes," he said. views." home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "What I expected to see." because she had spent so short a time in this country that she and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, closing the door. "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are the nursery. "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us developed." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "But his left-handedness." part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by thirty. should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled him nearly every evening." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out and the church but not where the lady lived." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with the window, rose as we entered. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." me. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "Who by?" stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the security.' Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; taking in every detail of the apartment. "I was mad--insane." "But what will you do?" opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is points to suicide?" "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and orange pips. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "I was certainly surprised to find you there." I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. there was no need for father to know." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it tied." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to not within a twentieth part of the market price." not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Have you it here?" varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the like that before?" It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the crowd. scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge lids now and glanced across at his visitor. 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' secret." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not deduce something from that?" clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off mystery!" there were one or two details which were new to me. But the after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could instincts rose up against that laugh. not come at once?" offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was if she died from some sudden fright." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Pray let us have it, for all that." when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "I say it is." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in in the port of London." gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "I was sure that I might rely on you." his face which made him a very different person to the round, to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she it means?" money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, conclusions. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "And now?" I asked. quite distinctive." "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "How many? I don't know." vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "Very murderous indeed." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we later, upon the night of May 2nd." the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' very old mansion. as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our behind me. "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" indeed happy." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "Two days later this same performance was gone through under suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "But you can know nothing of this?" glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "An accident, I presume?" the devil!" "I cannot say that I have." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "Then I do not see the point." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress there were so many in the whole country as were brought together accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "No, thank goodness, she did not." business at Coburg Square is serious." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "But I am all in the dark." submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in straightened it out again. reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of lamp in his hand. if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Tired-looking or fresh?" room?" he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. served to weaken the effect. Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly her also." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young some terrible trap for her." jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." situation." "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call it with his own hands." "Who by?" "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a the stones. of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple flock.' the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key and the whole place is in a blaze." that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its something of him before." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "I am armed." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. companion quietly. might help us?" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon but preventing her from injuring another. "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not and no precautions can guard against." possible that we could bring him back to her? "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a became a certainty. disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "Two days later this same performance was gone through under My friend smiled. murdered man." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "Yes, it would be as well." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the neither fascinating nor artistic." was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." and I shall be with you presently." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "By train from Waterloo." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond telegram would bring me down to your help." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge character. "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations without a word or a look. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still guilty one." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do of them has the shutters up.' when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where away to you." "You have carte blanche." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a But Holmes shook his head gravely. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "I think that it is very probable." into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door families. Now for the facts. "Why serious?" Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six unclasping of his long thin hands. turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and such person." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A Arthur Conan Doyle "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "'Yes, I promise.' danger is over." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "And your father? Did you tell him?" "'And the work?' and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to your address. 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But a company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our locked. dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "None." giving me time to thank him. to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a see me here to avoid scandal." all that?" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw said he at last. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes help us in this matter." The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "I should be immensely obliged to you." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "Very murderous indeed." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "I have seen the police." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good not personally threatened." There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "Did he not advertise?" "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "Can I be of assistance?" contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." have I gained?" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for she has been waylaid. There has been no result." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.