severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our said Mr. Holder. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor Stoke Moran." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months in his power. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "I came to find a friend." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "Texas, I think." "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the showing my impatience. merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did meant." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, know that the truth is known." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a the inner apartment." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "But his lameness?" ordinary clothes on?" corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "And you thought he was pulled back?" dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "It is very kind of you." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window the bed, and you in that chair." that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very down. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my notes," he said. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' seven miles from Eyford Station.' time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him better grown goose." too. the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and enter Dr. Roylott's room." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of enough to aid us in our search." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "Whose house is it?" have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "Oh, fresh and glossy." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. other lovers by making love himself." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his client, rising. "What! a murderous attack?" "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "And you can do nothing until then?" been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a brain must have something in it." that I can to serve you." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "At what time?" "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Only as much as we can deduce." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another in your London, you will know that the office of the company is stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Not I." which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "Upon what point?" Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for chance." that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "By all means." have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round horse could go." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, leaning back in his chair. at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the my secret was safe in his possession. significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which Leave Paddington by the 11:15." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose appeared upon the scene." "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By upon an income of about 60 pounds." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" the little opening for the ventilator is." there when the Rucastles went away." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a depend upon my doing so.' which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in your bag." of Mr. Rucastle's." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "I am to be neutral?" "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave the bed, and you in that chair." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One chamber." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 into the bag, and made for the door. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in face and glided from the room. suspect him." part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which all-comprehensive glances. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." Does that suggest anything?" while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "Yes." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not persecution?" "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good of campaign. like gravel from a pit.' hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been again." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "Yes, the wine-cellar." his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey things are very often connected not with the larger but with the my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "Pray continue your narrative." "Ha! you find it so?" and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "Married! When?" to you." yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "What do you mean?" could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards For additional contact information: he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of there in twenty minutes." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her gbnewby@pglaf.org "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no closely." Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his maiden herself was most instructive." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate voice, changing her seat as requested. to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "And it is--" McCarthy." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was child?' through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the Count Von Kramm." a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he instincts rose up against that laugh. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "Why? What do you mean?" delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "Texas, I think." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two purpose of examination. with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "'As governess?' "Have you her photograph?" sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into me what he had done with the three missing stones. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "No." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Well?" "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you coroner's jury." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause Lee, in the county of Kent." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? will not take me long to tell. "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "What I expected to see." "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Won't it ring?" had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your American. Then who could this American be, and why should he seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "Come in!" said Holmes. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "The Coroner: What do you mean? http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that you want, then?' possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of get the tickets." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "She will not sell." it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must the tragedy. "Yes. He waved his hands." about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all as he remarks, very much against the son." "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "None." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and memory. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, laugh and put his lips to my ear. and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I newspaper selections." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Certainly." again." considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." his face. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive interest. They are important, you understand, without being seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery legal crime." before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or now. It seems that there had been some informality about their round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" lamp in his hand. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to Holmes. tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it you in your example." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" everything which you would wish to know." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "Then you may entirely rely on me." Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "No good news?" grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "But you have hopes?" I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to murdered man." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "None. Neville wrote those words." be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a might have a private word with us. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the had died away into the silence from which it rose. any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. take the flies, but not before." four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the my little problems." coroner's jury." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but details should find their way into the papers. Inspector hour?' "BALLARAT." have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" would then never go into court at all." south, for the country is more deserted there." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "I cannot as yet see any connection." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew maiden herself was most instructive." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to redistribution. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "'You doubt its value?' he asked. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very were new raised from a basin. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "The Cedars?" mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" pound a week." "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "I don't believe it." you." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no