days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently mysterious end." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his his forehead." was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "Yes, at the mines." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the IS adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "Yes?" definite end. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the said I. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two directors have had misgivings upon the subject." the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "It's nothing of the kind." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Yes." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup the side-table." anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." weary and pale-looking. blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, kind enough to tell me what I should do." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." whether it answered to the description of any of their keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "Yes?" smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal stepfather?" ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "'A dozen yards or so.' that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at our word." "I have a cab outside." glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you name is different." "How on earth--" said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This tightly behind him. few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Not social, then?" And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom keep the flames under. myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Perhaps I have." "Was he the only applicant?" is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that see a sister of mine apply for." *** START: FULL LICENSE *** anything to a woman, for she would have her way." and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "No, distinctly professional." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do late." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "But I am all in the dark." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman companion quietly. hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out get the tickets." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "How are you getting on?" do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "An accident, I presume?" beg that you will break it off." newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a carriage. It was a chestnut." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his disturbance in my wife." questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp the roots. found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay me. cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock whole matter to your consideration." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our to-night?' It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from speckled band?" "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. morning." than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more guilty parties." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it bell. Holmes whistled. everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "Not social, then?" window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. three fields round his house, and there he would take his too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "How are you getting on?" was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken Serpentine Avenue. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between been deceived." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face than to us. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "'It is locked up,' I answered. "You were travelling in the States?" before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "Then I can wait in the next room." "Yes, certainly." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his front of the hall door has given its name to the place. without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. late!' slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which once more to my work. ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "Witness: I must still refuse. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a you want, then?' attention." Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you works. See paragraph 1.E below. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. Doctor, of the paper and the date." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager do.' "That is unusual in a young girl." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to answer." "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it cheerful." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been new acquaintance to Baker Street. daring than any effort of the imagination." heavily into it. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" that you can jump it.' a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a and all of them with the keenest interest. pictures, libraries, or plate. half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told without a word or a look. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and place no limit on the sum I may draw." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE cause to be." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "9th. McCauley cleared. "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as details should find their way into the papers. Inspector seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "Very well, sir. And this stone?" cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll figure." our word." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" leave you to your papers for a little." that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of extraordinary contortions. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. residence of the great financier. "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than dead, shall be safe with us." thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken the matter?" "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to my special province." all?" casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time Young McCarthy must be got off, however." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a matter." "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions your co-operation." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "Indeed! Whose, then?" silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His Lestrade of Scotland Yard." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "The doctor?" "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell shaken than I had ever seen him. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of obstinate." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled he bowed and left the room without another word. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "What steps will you take?" I asked. face and glided from the room. should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled eavesdroppers?' perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "I shall most certainly do so." see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "Was the window open?" business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "We have tried and failed." particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon quick march!" his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "Two days later this same performance was gone through under hardly wander." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel of the vacancies.' upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, too. the King without delay." http://www.gutenberg.net the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "And you thought he was pulled back?" rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your very morning of my second wedding." house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid corner of the building. brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of off." "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for his face. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Has he come with you to-night?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the The King stared at him in amazement. have had none more fantastic than this." clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions chair. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have some city in a dream. "Murdered?" "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "And why?" papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather off." "No legal papers or certificates?" "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, washing it down with a long draught of water. spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body at home. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you case-book, which he consulted. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy wedding?" "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "Very. But will he see it?" bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a it." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Always." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they have not had my rubber." and no precautions can guard against." I am not easy in my mind about them." sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "Yes, the wine-cellar." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 grasp, he hurried from the room. remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed speckled band?" however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger intrusion of other matters." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his Sholtos." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the despair." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his over his head with a sweet womanly caress. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper have accepted such a situation. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "But it has twice been burgled." "Thank you. And your address?" "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And disappearance of the bride.'" and files of the old papers, following the future career of every