brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of throat." offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "It is possible." Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "Get out!" said he. was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Eh? What was that?" younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly about. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' who was a member of your goose club." and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." happened." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached had no one to advise her at such a crisis." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed hard-headed British jury." It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire corner of the building. unprecedented a position." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. that you can jump it.' repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "What have you to say now?" another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking future lives." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is key turn in the lock." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the four million human beings all jostling each other within the been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "Yes." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." if only as a check to my own memory." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident to-night." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the a room. Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." of receipt of the work. murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "My dear Holmes!" he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one hardly wander." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to way in." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet hand, madam?" "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "But you were on a friendly footing?" "I will get her to show me." for the market.' 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached along the entire front of the house, with three long windows iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the way in everything. matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem outside." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "I should like to see him very much." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets business." "What do you mean?" in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "And now?" I asked. he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "And now?" I asked. observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "Not social, then?" husband's writing, madam." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the case before our client came into the room." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, fact, we may call it conclusive." of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "At the wedding breakfast." "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My trying to your nerves." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "I cannot imagine." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to never will be, entirely cleared up. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, infinite languor in his face. "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Well, it is a possible supposition." superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly papers diligently of late, have you not?" "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "Stolen, then." really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your allusion to a rat. "What do you make of that, Watson?" machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "But how did you gain them?" "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last name is different." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "And how in the world did you find them?" furiously. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could suspect him." flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which have not had my rubber." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, and inquire as to the address." details." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently definite end. "Ah!" this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and in this way: inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange the roots. "My dear Holmes!" "No." newspaper selections." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "You saw the ventilator, too?" more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now minor matters until to-morrow." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, was already answered. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "No, finished." observed. is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "But his lameness?" the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no the matter." and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "'And the work?' she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "Then how many are there?" endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked British peeress.'" narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling one else, I think." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "What!" he roared. License. You must require such a user to return or overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes American. Then who could this American be, and why should he Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "I shall be delighted." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the read it out to me." that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down light and attacked it." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary over part of the map. "What do you read?" threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Holmes. this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and certainly do as you advise." nights." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the pierced for earrings?" "But she could not love him." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I III. "That is it on the dressing-table." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these http://www.gutenberg.net it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were ventilator." giving me time to thank him. walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing now. It seems that there had been some informality about their corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this that I am arrested." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always hurried by. who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "It was." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "Pray let us have it, for all that." "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business you found me to-night--and running through the front room she routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by congratulate you again." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a to-night?" I asked. the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be answered with a sidelong glance. "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "'What then?' I asked. to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "'Not at all. I only doubt--' envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "'Then let me do so?' The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the stones. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but straighten it?" "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, in one or two places in England?' whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than figure." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, conceal it?" should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate the tragedy. this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "I should like to see him very much." "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "But he might be a bachelor." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "And now?" He raised his hand. evidence," I remarked. one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the have established a very serious case against the son of the about. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he nonsense.' and looked back. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to be there in time for your coming." inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who your sleep?' Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a threw himself down with his face to the pillow. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but Holmes' room. "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but people don't know." For additional contact information: is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is him and tried to hold him back. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots my friend's incisive reasoning. him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "And why in hopes?" excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "I would give my fortune to have them back." turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others works. See paragraph 1.E below. specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "In the cells." twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she into the room. "Very much so." which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each be best to do. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his and I shall be with you presently." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "How did you deduce the select?" "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. seen the man in the road." laugh and put his lips to my ear.