"Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "I see no marks." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view business." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "'Yes, sir.' tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted salesman. where she found matters as described by the last witness. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your Foundation worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "Yes." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and dead, shall be safe with us." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "And I say east," said my patient. shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San heavy and sharp instrument." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' get her out of the way." "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at During two years I have had three consultations and one small to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I once more on the important position which you have been fortunate a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll British peeress.'" of the efforts of the United States government and of the better posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied answered with a sidelong glance. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "My photograph." head. So long, then!" what do you think they found in the pockets?" usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' ways including including checks, online payments and credit card Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his row." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready arrested. You then--" "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. indeed which he could not unravel. "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "She will not sell." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? woman who has had her own way to make in the world. who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg said he, "my real name is James Ryder." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with Holmes' face clouded over. lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his to some other building. cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "On the contrary, this is the right side." nights." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed fashion which was peculiar to him. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "You have the photograph?" should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." suspect him." he bowed and left the room without another word. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent cigar and let me expound." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too the matter?" "Was she in good spirits?" thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the train.' fact, we may call it conclusive." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "I think that I had better go, Holmes." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "Nothing." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles an introduction to him?" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Really! You surprise me." "'Yes, I promise.' "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that footfalls from the street. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of Eyford at 11:15.' before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. wife's character?" "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" new duties?' this poor creature." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "Breckinridge is his name." cost them two and thirty pounds." better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." tassel actually lying upon the pillow. no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "You have a clue?" my former friend and companion. he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. if only as a check to my own memory." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "This concluded the examination of the witness." side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to the coronet in his hand?" forebodings. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each which are rolled in Rotterdam." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "And you don't know his address?" with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Then you may be so with me." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when carried out of court." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still coroner's jury." our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that something of him before." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The your billet.' see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had me where it went to?" impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had have got?" at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" guilty parties." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the once more on the important position which you have been fortunate then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded in his hands." "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had trifles." staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have envelope. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an ran thus: salesman. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "It is his hat." "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to Eyford." "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS his grey eyes. as he remarks, very much against the son." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "Did you become engaged then?" more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The prisoner's face. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she The King stared at him in amazement. up this clue while it is still hot." the bottom.' "'It is locked up,' I answered. another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know breakfast?" But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the to take care of herself." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and and I shall be with you presently." be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call indeed which he could not unravel. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see that before taking the final step I should like to submit the the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "'What, the red-headed man?' "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "Do you go out much in society?" "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with particular state visit http://pglaf.org thought that she would have been so carried away." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "He said too much." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "Your French gold?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which than was visible to me." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will to a more successful conclusion." stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "'Which dealer's?' man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice I have it here in my museum." ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "Stolen, then." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "'Never.' his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "'And the work?' glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. again, where I was soon asleep. "I will not look." directors have had misgivings upon the subject." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Pray let us have it, for all that." incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "Can I be of assistance?" even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "It is no ordinary one." "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "By no means." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had felt?" in your London, you will know that the office of the company is and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Then I am your man." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left James Windibank. Voilà tout!" one's self under obligations.' gone. upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the dead, shall be safe with us." "I think that it is very probable." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. highly," said Holmes. back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. straightened it out again. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and which are rolled in Rotterdam." Count Von Kramm." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in and put his glass in his pocket. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "Yes." "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "My dear Holmes!" glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it and that he would see to anything that turned up. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "I think it very unlikely." there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole chair. from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "I am all attention, madam." this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "'About the same.' tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no held up the lantern and gazed about him. running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. several quiet little villages up there." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment face and glided from the room. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was do." counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with