stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which in the dead of the night?' there when the Rucastles went away." Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be prisoner's face. however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his way: may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon notes," he said. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on meant it for the best. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might careless servant girl?" "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. lumber-room." the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything confronted him. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "A call for help, you thought?" with you alone." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I maiden herself was most instructive." carriage. It was a chestnut." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. served to weaken the effect. dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the in the port of London." answered with a sidelong glance. remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I to affect your life." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her *** START: FULL LICENSE *** beyond words. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to McCarthy's innocence. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "I don't believe it." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would where she found matters as described by the last witness. Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "What steps will you take?" I asked. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "No." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "Yes, there are nearly always some there." work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your other, as fresh and trim as possible. is acting for the best. Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable ill-usage at the hands of fortune. are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said maiden herself was most instructive." skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy the bed, and you in that chair." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous his grey eyes. X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. strength." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. mysterious business." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "I cannot say that I have." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this one of them." stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest the dangers which encompass me." DAMAGE. out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "From his hat?" of his shoulders. Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to amused." "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "I cannot tell." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, speckled band?" was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of respectable self." I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was His smile broadened. should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "But you would not advise me to refuse?" Henry Baker is a member." difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. direction." may have an influence upon European history." stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of when your master had gone out." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless touch that coronet?' "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he call for it in person on Monday morning.' bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a woven round him. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, a few minutes he said that it would be all right. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who of it with the greatest attention. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "Witness: It was. about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Breckinridge is his name." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "Imitated." "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that someone who had been in Australia." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and front of the hall door has given its name to the place. to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some you want, then?' request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide dates and names. suddenly upon us." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after I have it here in my museum." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "But his left-handedness." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that fled together." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a During two years I have had three consultations and one small details should find their way into the papers. Inspector cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." charge against him will break down." you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he to tackle the facts." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not and effective." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all felt?" blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the business matters.' varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off was used.' My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of careless servant girl?" at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "Then I can wait in the next room." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now not fit the lock." observed. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "I saw her in conversation with her maid." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been populous neighbourhood." villagers almost as much as their master. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch mystery." girl said." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of stood on the top of it. following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. if I call to-morrow?" that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted in your London, you will know that the office of the company is fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "I shall most certainly do so." pictures, libraries, or plate. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "I answered that I had not. met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire business came to an end." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. this Miss Turner." is worth.' pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you coat-tails." "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "'Certainly,' I answered. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Gutenberg-tm License. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just From what you have told me I think that it is possible that I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman she slowly sank and died without having recovered her endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one do.' "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "What, then?" "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "Thank you. And your address?" always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has your only hope of safety." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "Ha! you find it so?" flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "When did it break out?" conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and like gravel from a pit.' quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the examine." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "I cannot tell." I have it here in my museum." "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn be there in time for your coming." Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "One horse?" interjected Holmes. that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "What steps will you take?" I asked. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "'Certainly not.' "What are they?" of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future nothing with him." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out galvanised. "Where, then?" half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through October 9, 1890. reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she examine." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "At the wedding breakfast." time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw how narrow had been my escape. of." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your other lovers by making love himself." coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "And your father? Did you tell him?" you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be in the port of London." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer helping a boy to put up the shutters. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the maid will bring up your coffee." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "I promise," said Holmes. "In which, sir?" "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Then, as to money?" house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. call for it in person on Monday morning.' "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. note?" an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during advice." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "Yes, all." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Quite so. She has her freedom." to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which indeed which he could not unravel. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "And what then?" that you wished to speak to me?' the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. closing the door. Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "Pray be precise as to details," said he. week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for despaired of." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without During two years I have had three consultations and one small marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other Sholtos." to tell." light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. horse could go." "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "Were they all fastened this morning?" "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "It may not come to that," said Holmes.