"I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "Why serious?" the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen and that he would see to anything that turned up. only touch the interest." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my to you." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a without a word or a look. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "Yes, he did." can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without The King stared at him in amazement. with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking not interfere, come what may. You understand?" quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is License. You must require such a user to return or "Did he not advertise?" went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "10th. John Swain cleared. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "No, I am descending." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with derbies." for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "You have it, sir, just as it happened." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Pray do so." recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately forecastle of an emigrant ship. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the should be taken.' attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to disappearance of these gems?" scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." to arrive at through this?" assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. lost his Christmas dinner." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed who was a member of your goose club." sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" true." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "I do." the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "I came to find a friend." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he existence." came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You security.' companion. bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "Pray continue your narrative." I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? yet." money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "And it is--" shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the followed. found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "I cannot tell." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets upon a handsome competence. shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "And I say east," said my patient. "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an the running down." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute away to you." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "Where to?" "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, tassel actually lying upon the pillow. garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of the south-west, I see." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "'What then?' I asked. dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "'Which dealer's?' "And why?" frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an salesman. pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the business matters.' Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless to tell." "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into more solid." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a the best of training." side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she with you alone." understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." himself. you give your casting vote to?" is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it business." have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "What! You do not mean bodies?" I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There were wasted." "Was the window open?" go from here to the Strand." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "Game for a morning drive?" should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, other lovers by making love himself." despair." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and some mystery and the punishment of some crime." with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were companion. the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from views." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very direction." "It's nothing of the kind." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "Yes." silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Yes." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my Leadenhall Street--and--" Heh?' garden below. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple will not take me long to tell. where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making article?" as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, before the coroner and the police-court." Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful is acting for the best. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' handed it to him. how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss *** START: FULL LICENSE *** about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" Sutherland. myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my my friend's incisive reasoning. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. into the room. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, McCarthy's innocence. "How did that help you?" already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if me have 200 pounds?' "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled your room." "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long how narrow had been my escape. hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have least a most suspicious remark." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." papers on the sundial.'" caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but awaited us upon the table. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "I will not look." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her them present such singular features as the strange train of which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "None." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may reach." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "What then?" away into the river." justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, there!' It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in writing, and yet I know it well." "It looks newer than the other things?" a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of on re-entering her father's house?" "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "But how?" shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." orange pips. sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny good for you to do.' Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm she slowly sank and died without having recovered her rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have goes." to Leatherhead. occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she points to suicide?" in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez call it cruel." "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "I cannot say that I have." was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "By no means." "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and you want, then?' window when the police appeared." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may crime." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. arms and began to sob in a high treble key. beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man to a more successful conclusion." during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "Yes. He waved his hands." "But not more so than I to find you." jewels which you have stolen?' side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in the little opening for the ventilator is." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "Nothing." go--none." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called such person." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just the room while you explain this matter?" morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is your room." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Could he throw no light?" little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on thin legs towards the fire. never to learn it at all." effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar for securing the situation." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "'How far from the body?' "You have carte blanche." which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that are, I think, all that we need." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a sentimental considerations in the background which would induce that I am arrested." you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us the running down." which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, room had already been engaged for us. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "Yes, I have one waiting." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to is a common subject for conversation. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "What then?" "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "Very much so." "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "That is it on the dressing-table." iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing forehead. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms that I may have something better before very many minutes are