The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little showing my impatience. long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the excitement. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it brought there to personate someone, and the real person is flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "So I have heard." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! the nursery. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is himself to tell his story. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the is a common subject for conversation. from the brougham. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "And I." was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at there." and the colonel ushered me in. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the lost his Christmas dinner." "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we the dangers which encompass me." with you?" some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed hard-headed British jury." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "I came to find a friend." inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "Oh, fresh and glossy." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." upon the sideboard." villagers almost as much as their master. however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven became a certainty. o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the clang of the bell. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I certainly not very gracious." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the have established a very serious case against the son of the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been details." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. presume?" "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. again on its way. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those interests were the same as his." "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found outbreak?" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP nothing with him." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt side. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my or in danger--" an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "Is he quiet?" the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "10th. John Swain cleared. "No, but the enclosure is." morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I Mary, has deserted me." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have pierced for earrings?" I leave." him. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event which I could not give. He asked for Alice. the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." really the only notable feature about the thing." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax murdered man." to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "'And the work?' knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "I will not look." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "Come in!" said he. here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "That sounds a little paradoxical." up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who mystery may be cleared along those lines." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her But Holmes shook his head gravely. connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in help us in this matter." solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had the roots. "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "No good news?" cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you asked. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian and effective." sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and conclusions. hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "I was certainly surprised to find you there." depend upon my doing so.' thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very good for you to do.' "To the police?" ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "And who is her maid?" knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "'Oh, no.' "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and weapon." Holmes' face clouded over. than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it interest. They are important, you understand, without being "An enemy?" disappearance of the bride.'" no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a unclasping of his long thin hands. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "And I say east," said my patient. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "I should like to see him very much." than was visible to me." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest before the coroner and the police-court." can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "My Mary? Impossible!" confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked what these perils are?" running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very chair. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very II. a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which walking." settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "'I have heard so.' "Yes." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "'What then?' I asked. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of laugh and put his lips to my ear. "You are all wrong." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. was keenly on my guard against him. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out From what you have told me I think that it is possible that man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a what is your own theory as to what took place?" prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." eavesdroppers?' Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the I leave." forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "Yes, only one." "I beg pardon." the coronet in his hand?" peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very his fortune, and I went back to pa. away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. both be extremely obliged.' must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." "I assure you that I am in your hands." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "And the cigar-holder?" "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "'And the work?' "Then, as to money?" last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months him and tried to hold him back. corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard have got?" have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position evidence," I remarked. time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it of his shoulders. eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "It certainly sounds feasible." small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. his wife has ceased to love him." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to shall use the carriage to-night." you?" "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "It looks newer than the other things?" "You were travelling in the States?" at a side door. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "Pray continue your narrative." our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. situation." play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk once more for Briony Lodge. about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then bed dies. Does not that strike you?" of his shoulders. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "Quite so. She has her freedom." and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he walking." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin a suggestive one." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "I am in hopes that she does." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "In answer to an advertisement." with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. noting anything else of interest. brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his security.' which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as a suggestive one." Holmes. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "'Not at all. I only doubt--' business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend not as remarkable as your advertisement." "Well." beyond words. of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been colour had been driven from his face. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark his face which made him a very different person to the round, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "No legal papers or certificates?" problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to of the vacancies.' For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was official police." desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in not as remarkable as your advertisement." in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "No. What a strange idea!" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "Yes, it was twisted." which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a think you a quite exceptional woman." star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of was a loud and authoritative tap. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian rat could hardly pass through." suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "No. What a strange idea!" about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "What then?" the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "But how will you look?" "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the he bowed and left the room without another word. maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had said I. The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "Yes, that is the Crown." "Entirely." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really tightly behind him. happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be indiscretion." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: not personally threatened." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent that you can jump it.' time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the good for you to do.' yards of it?' "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the which it had come upon my father." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy my secret was safe in his possession. Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is the stable lane now." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "By no means." little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "And you don't know his address?" there in twenty minutes." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done