"Will you go?" for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "I am armed." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making nonsense.' "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my sofa. This way, please!" my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and quick march!" "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the manager. the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, one of them." of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." to miss it." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. amused." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "They are typewritten," I remarked. to arrive at through this?" about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband hard-headed British jury." "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the upon an income of about 60 pounds." a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, him to go away.' cause to be." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The six. Come in!" hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "And what did you see?" heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "How did that help you?" directors, with the result that you have seen." as this. Pray let me have the details." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "Your French gold?" learned something! Where are the gems?" forebodings. right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm desk. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would present." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "'Yes, I promise.' "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "Very murderous indeed." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any at a side door. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, to go into your room and bar your shutters?" with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch trying to your nerves." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "I have come for advice." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box been able to understand it, in a very few words. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that not as remarkable as your advertisement." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you I am not easy in my mind about them." disappearance of these gems?" absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, know what is wrong with it.' glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to retorted upon me, and I on you." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. had a long day." money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, I was concerned in it." "I shall be delighted." "Then he might have called to you?" "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees as noiselessly as she had come. swore that no one else had been in the front room during the chambers. "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "It came here." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past used to be." "I came to find a friend." worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's other, as fresh and trim as possible. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Now, then, what's the last entry?" out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three she to prove their authenticity?" Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door happened." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared not as remarkable as your advertisement." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "But you were on a friendly footing?" "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must before the coroner and the police-court." chamber." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my helping a boy to put up the shutters. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "Never to return." Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he arrested. You then--" he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master intimate personal affairs in this public manner." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is window when the police appeared." will not take me long to tell. his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that presented more singular features than that which was associated take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. had died away into the silence from which it rose. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are brain must have something in it." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." telegram would bring me down to your help." Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was one of the states of the Union." wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "I am in hopes that she does." occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "But how did you gain them?" the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw trifles." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent a room. back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "No, I had a dozen." father's place of business?" power." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "I cannot imagine." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a absorbing." wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous during the last few years, and there are many noble families to knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. morning." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon my room." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever Holmes rather sternly. from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing window when the police appeared." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "She told me to ask you." "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it American. Then who could this American be, and why should he found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "How did you trace it, then?" "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a gigantic client. truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning help us in this matter." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our bears upon the case?" "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "'I have heard so.' gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was horse could go." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where coroner's jury." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "Ah, but I was recommended to you." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me details." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot papers must be those that are destroyed.' obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "And the cigar-holder?" before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips that before taking the final step I should like to submit the part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, his grey eyes. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me yards of it?' entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "It may not come to that," said Holmes. invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "Never to return." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his here and I will read it to you: simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his cigars in the box." "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen it." which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left had formerly been in part my own. from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "'Entirely.' "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an which we had just quitted. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." his cane at the bell-pull. that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the is worth.' "What steps will you take?" I asked. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently sneer upon his pale face. Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your outside. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. window when the police appeared." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic yet." This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction question you as to those details which seem to me to be most once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "A confidential servant?" "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "I warn you that they are very incomplete." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "I am armed." "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "Come in!" said he. "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me could gather together that I was able to avert another public coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "Whose house is it?" have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He to have been novel and of interest." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without secret." then?" had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is said I.