police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the the warnings." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "What is it?" lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out threw himself down with his face to the pillow. have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "I do." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "It missed him, then?" "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "That is possible." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small see me here to avoid scandal." "I am sure." And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Do you know him?" also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is cigars in the box." I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "But how will you look?" rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black is now desirous of getting those letters back." which our visitor detailed to us. look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "'Is purely nominal.' never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave forbidden door. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his hour." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "The doctor?" The summons was a brief and urgent one. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in colour had been driven from his face. its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast me have 200 pounds?' chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we and have this put in the evening papers." "But how?" "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "I don't say that. Perhaps." ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the kindly on the shoulder. that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "Yes?" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "The landlord of the Alpha." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "No?" mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which and it need not interfere very much with one's other St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight train.' importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be tension within him. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that garden below. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he used to be." to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more Count Von Kramm." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "I know where it is." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I his face. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of of the efforts of the United States government and of the better a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have presume?" cigars in their mouths. "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, stood on the top of it. "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt from you?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "Nearly eleven." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "I cannot tell." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor disappearance of these gems?" places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "You saw the ventilator, too?" will he say when he returns?" the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court events, Mr. Windibank!" effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had in darkness. "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money to that open window." sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless are, I think, all that we need." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always reach." the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "Where did he live, then?" spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, individual and becomes the badge of a society." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Witness: It was. "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly that I may have something better before very many minutes are how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." such attractions and accomplishments?' even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "But to whom?" adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. legal crime." "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' the bottom.' to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently very morning of my second wedding." "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there joking. "I should wish to." "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "So I am. Very much so." "And Miss Sutherland?" stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing always that they were such commands as a lady might with is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less not come at once?" There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said and the whole place is in a blaze." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical I held the little printed slip to the light. murdered man." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "'I am sure that I do not know.' only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "You have a clue?" photograph?" "You are hungry," I remarked. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "None." ago." your sleep?' do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In outside." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "Yes." "No legal papers or certificates?" hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On union?" destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to some city in a dream. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies companion. Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "Was he the only applicant?" do." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the crime." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "By all means." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would affair. "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, relief. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt meant." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of guilty parties." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was opportunities to fix the problem. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "Here?" the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "I saw her in conversation with her maid." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "Not in the least." "Just look it up, then." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not note?" sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I plantation.' he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "But his left-handedness." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. horse could go." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for Clair, of Lee." I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "My photograph." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something tell them apart.' given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. http://gutenberg.net/license). "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. again on its way. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "It came here." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Then the page we have seen--" isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed said I. convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who prove to be little relation between the different incidents of to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "What office?" not as remarkable as your advertisement." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have upon the shelf for the interim." impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he congenial hunt. gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for vault. and shall probably return to London by the evening train." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." province." locked. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "Precisely." been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. Again Holmes raved in the air. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter her also." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "You have it, sir, just as it happened." star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. you." He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' looking up at the numbers of the houses." few hundred pounds.' hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, to some other building. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of fait accompli?" so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid situation." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see was a perfect sample of the class. "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But must be when I saw the door open.' believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but Gutenberg-tm License. "Where, then?" the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case quite distinctive." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very fire. You quite follow me?" wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air The King stared at him in amazement. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any some water from a caraffe. before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which both be extremely obliged.' dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback