once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "VIOLET HUNTER." are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "What will you say?" gone before you can get him to hospital." heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "'And what are they worth?' I asked. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his woman who has had her own way to make in the world. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to introspective fashion. "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a depend upon your compliance." "Precisely." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was I think that I could be of assistance to you." calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that should be so warm over such a trifle." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with of the efforts of the United States government and of the better closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his during which he might have communicated with his friend the Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches your Highness to the police-station?" out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" generous with you in money matters.' pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court appeared upon the scene." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "I cannot tell." "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "My dear Holmes!" latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all this man was intellectual?" jewels which you have stolen?' hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "I would pay ten." details." "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "Did you become engaged then?" nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "And Miss Sutherland?" brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found would apply.' will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "'A dozen yards or so.' "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the in his hands." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater national property. I was determined that the law should have its the armchair which I pushed forward for him. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "Yes, I have one waiting." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge You want to know what became of those geese?" of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "Never." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as his face. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "Then you may entirely rely on me." "And how in the world did you find them?" "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "That is unusual in a young girl." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "I should like to see him very much." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard shoulder. eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the Gutenberg-tm License. iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark one's self under obligations.' through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as washing it down with a long draught of water. salesman. sound at heart." "Well, but China?" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the of your young ladies.' "I was mad--insane." I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your system of imprisonment?" - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. during which he might have communicated with his friend the tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your the loss of it. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster persecution?" said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a invisible to me," I remarked. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's father's young wife. after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a could not have written that. It is the German who is so serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and the general public were present, then?" very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' may have an influence upon European history." there!' or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' said he. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. people don't know." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous Dr. Gregory B. Newby man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught father's place of business?" corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel wall." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the weary and pale-looking. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." certainly not very gracious." waste of energy." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may exactly what you advise." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That society." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "And what then?" explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Dr. Becher's." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away and that he would see to anything that turned up. I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time the dangers which encompass me." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "Yes, the wine-cellar." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the entirely lost his self-respect." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in prison!" everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the future lives." what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United American. Then who could this American be, and why should he into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every grasp, he hurried from the room. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as man. head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined happened." way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said leaning back in his chair. post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very papers diligently of late, have you not?" "Now, then, what's the last entry?" in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "That is also quite modern," said the lady. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "My dear Holmes!" have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "Then you may be so with me." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do all that?" "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do experiences." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an rose-bushes. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "May I see it?" While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the criminal. We have already had experience of such." turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "Certainly." This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any once more to my work. in darkness. "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "What! a murderous attack?" they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project country, and eventually married, without anyone having a workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was occupations.' his knees, staring into the fire. housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have interest. They are important, you understand, without being the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "Where, then, is my wife?" There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "And how did he make his money?" sparkled upon his finger. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with the room while you explain this matter?" doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through sound at heart." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "Not particularly." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Whose house is it?" very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the meanly of me." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "Married! When?" he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was him!" without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "I am armed." common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this might help us?" occupations.' unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter the matter?" which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. dear old homesteads?" case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "What?" better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us Edgeware Road. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no the stones. pressing in one house as in another. brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had this remarkable episode. "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We Holmes rather sternly. I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "Yes." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he present." extraordinary contortions. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "One?" "What is it?" seen the man in the road." "I cannot as yet see any connection." questionable one." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Really! You surprise me." Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. weapon." the nursery. on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the again." the ceiling. "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself you want, then?' was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new desk. in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you remarked. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "It surprised me." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to breakfast and whispered something to her husband. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a humiliation." little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I when you have done it." object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered one of them." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to one or two very singular points about this room. For example, one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, nice household for a young lady." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply sake, don't!" when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "And how have you succeeded?" "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned appointment with me for six o'clock?" mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you awkward doing business with an alias." recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "And how have you succeeded?" handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not Leadenhall Street--and--" ways including including checks, online payments and credit card you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible wife's character?" re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included