property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "I came to find a friend." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson brandy and water within his reach. "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Now, then, what's the last entry?" look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "Breckinridge is his name." the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." matters immensely." bill, which interests me deeply." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of Edgeware Road. bonnet, and went out." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very annoyance, but no jest. was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me locked. "I cannot tell." works. and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up chamber." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your http://www.gutenberg.net however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "I guessed as much." the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "You think that he is dead?" photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the fish-monger and a tide-waiter." papers diligently of late, have you not?" exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and investigation." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of companion. as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "On Monday." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw which are rolled in Rotterdam." difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "In the cells." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own thought that she would have been so carried away." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "I am all attention, madam." gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "Here?" collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, forbidden door. interest. They are important, you understand, without being "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel newspaper selections." news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "'Then let me do so?' results." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the furiously. matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "'Certainly not.' met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "'Very good.' One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. unprofitable." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens burst into a hearty fit of laughter. horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that goes." lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the room had already been engaged for us. "Pray do so." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I you in yours." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael heavily into it. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Then I shall certainly come." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Come in!" said Holmes. clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior chambers. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing carriage. It was a chestnut." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it province." "And how did you find out?" them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would cost them two and thirty pounds." "Why, what do you mean?" was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "And that is--" "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." shoulder; "he's all right." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and to have been novel and of interest." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the people don't know." extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words me have 200 pounds?' another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and may never be exposed to such a temptation." began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "You have the photograph?" grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I easy-going way." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "Entirely." "'Most admirably.' received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves to take care of herself." do you make of it all?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I when you have done it." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your them?" "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "What then?" "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the question," said Holmes, smiling. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "He might." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his make me his representative both with the servants and with the and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Holmes' face clouded over. "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some of this gang." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers in him." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the American. Then who could this American be, and why should he that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought success. the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "What have you done?" asked Holmes. has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "'Oh, no.' low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could at my remark. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a papers diligently of late, have you not?" which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. highly," said Holmes. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in congratulate you again." go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went is worth.' horse could go." "Yes, certainly." bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, chemical work which was so dear to him. me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the distance from the station, and there we found the young lady scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of to have that photograph." "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by jewels which you have stolen?' jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when arrangements." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it strong reason behind." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most heavily into it. of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting presented more singular features than that which was associated and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "Pray be precise as to details," said he. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I such person." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless key turn in the lock." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "'Then let me do so?' creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, your Highness to the police-station?" was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he outbreak?" were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. written. the stable lane now." surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and compunction about shooting them down." "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." in him." young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. be best to do. real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. bonnet, and went out." help us in this matter." but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "Why did you beat the pavement?" case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and his huge brown hands. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. crackling voice. conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is as the one I chose?' This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "No." overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "You forget that I know nothing about it." parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and investigation." promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." once more to my work. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off third from London." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in hands. ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, used to be." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "I will try. What is it?" hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "A greater distance to travel." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the letters?" platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "Certainly, madam." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "The landlord of the Alpha." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average question. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a will be renamed. great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some made his money." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear strong reason behind." The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. to take care of herself." heavily into it. words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that there were one or two details which were new to me. But the Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our said he. said I. digesting their breakfasts at home." good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not said he. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "And is that all?" professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place had a long day." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "Absolutely?" was a loud and authoritative tap. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "None." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The photograph?" If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a him nearly every evening." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "'A dozen yards or so.' saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a think that he is innocent?" Literary Archive Foundation a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "Where did you address your letters, then?" doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "'What would be the hours?' I asked. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "'Oh, no.' receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the the matter?" I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "What then?" them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do room. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction