towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." people don't know." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest know what is wrong with it.' to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "But what is it you wish?" conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no troubles have been weighing upon his mind. bachelor.' conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "Was the window open?" conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some that you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his in this note: armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any was keenly on my guard against him. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Then, how do you know?" he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "And from a noble client?" sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "The decline of his fortunes, then?" endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His my room." again, where I was soon asleep. the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to train.' the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt outside." only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of unclasping of his long thin hands. introspective fashion. cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Where, indeed?" and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a evidence," I remarked. him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is hour." "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of to go into your room and bar your shutters?" should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of Sutherland?" "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage shoulder; "he's all right." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which husband's writing, madam." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. photograph a cabinet?" greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a village inn over there?" pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, companion. There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, could not have written that. It is the German who is so "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a brain must have something in it." them?" entirely lost his self-respect." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was him to be an active member of the medical profession." carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who in the dead of the night?' "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "None." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and power." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who floor. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project married her." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you to-night?' for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "How about poison?" "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they The note was undated, and without either signature or address. the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' wedding?" about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the as the one I chose?' been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any be there in time for your coming." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "You will not go there first?" applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "My last client of the sort was a king." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon away into the river." "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "Of Friday, June 19th." system of imprisonment?" is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "Why, what do you mean?" certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you look dissatisfied." "I shall most certainly do so." returned to France?" over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may considering the formidable letters which were received by himself as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening you." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of on in his house." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for introspective fashion. landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "And how have you succeeded?" "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. Pool. him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" Heh?' the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and occupations.' since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. completely overtopped every other consideration that we both One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use my secret was safe in his possession. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? it." "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the weigh very heavily upon my conscience." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I Street. introspective fashion. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered whatever might befall. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that and the whole place is in a blaze." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me me. You must get home instantly and act." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "But you have hopes?" introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not the dangers which encompass me." the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "Pray do so." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not them?" before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the that threaten you." recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "How many? I don't know." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive the iron safe, which he closed upon it. that there was nothing in it, after all." "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "'I am sure if I had known--' which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "My dear Holmes!" room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very shall not find me ungrateful." dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at bonnet, and went out." gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go these bleak autumnal evenings." 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last breakfast?" And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom himself in a perplexing position. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you lids now and glanced across at his visitor. how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily that I may have something better before very many minutes are III. would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I during which he might have communicated with his friend the make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and back alive. and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small Chief Executive and Director For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, could not account in any way for the presence of the missing in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." get the tickets." bonnet, and went out." analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "But it has twice been burgled." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "Ample." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the he. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were you." with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding direction." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "I say it is." chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg off." "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in Sholtos." again before evening." do.' "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "I cannot think." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see papers diligently of late, have you not?" active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the there is a decided draught." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. redistribution. his face. call the police, let the police find what they can.' have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too she slowly sank and died without having recovered her Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing is four-and-twenty." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he most interesting one." Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in The police have openly confessed that they can at present make occupations.' her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have to Leatherhead. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. looking up at the numbers of the houses." going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." an introduction to him?" classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "Entirely." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "Then how many are there?" very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of became a certainty. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, he bowed and left the room without another word. window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered a very grave face. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no system of imprisonment?"